Fostering open source culture (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Arun Gupta is back, this time with his latest book in hand titled “Fostering Open Source Culture” to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering open source culture. BTW you can use the code OSCULTURE20 to get 20% off (both print and e-book). Use this link and enjoy.

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Featuring:

• Arun Gupta – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Book announcement
• Buy the book - save 20% using code OSCULTURE20

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Temporal (00:01:10)

https://temporal.io

3. Start the show! (00:03:14)

4. Fostering open source at Intel (00:07:06)

5. Enterprise engaging with open source (00:12:24)

6. Pitching open source (00:16:34)

7. Support and embrace (00:21:48)

8. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:25:57)

https://www.augmentcode.com

9. Examples of open source (00:29:27)

10. What is InnerSource? (00:35:41)

11. InnerSource as a proving ground (00:40:59)

12. Internal events (00:47:49)

13. Bringing the Cloud Natives (00:51:18)

14. Sponsor: Notion (00:52:11)

http://notion.com/changelog

15. Like HIIT training (00:54:59)

16. Arun runs (a lot) (01:00:53)

17. Joining open source foundations (01:08:12)

18. Getting started with fostering (OSS) (01:14:31)

19. Wrapping up (01:20:55)