Episode 31: Ben Cotton - Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat

November 8th, 2022  |  59 mins 13 secs

community, development, fedora, fesco, linux, mailing list, open source, program management, project management, red hat

Ben Cotton is the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. We talk about what he does with Fedora, his history getting into Linux, and herding cats.

Episode 30: Brett Davis - Executive Vice President at iXsystems

November 1st, 2022  |  1 hr 31 mins

bootstrapping, bsd, business, copyright, corporate growth, development, freebsd, freenas, linux, mistakes, open source, oracle, patents, scale, startup, sun, truenas, unix, zfs

Brett Davis is the Executive Vice President at iXsystems. We talk about his first jobs in the tech field, his introduction to open source, as well as the interesting history of iXsystems.

Episode 29: Deb Goodkin - Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation

April 26th, 2022  |  51 mins 41 secs

berkley, bsd, development, freebsd, funding, ibm, linux, maxtor, open source, playstation, project management, sony, technology

Deb is the Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation.

Episode 28: Corey Hulen - CTO and Co-Founder of Mattermost

April 12th, 2022  |  52 mins 13 secs

ai, atlasian, bill gates, community, datasets, developer, development, engagement, gitlab, ian tien, jira, linux, mattermost, microsoft, ml, office, open data, open source, openness, sharepoint, slack, steve balmer, vr

Corey Hulen is the CTO and Co-Founder of Mattermost

Episode 27: Philippe Humeau - Founder of CrowdSec

December 21st, 2021  |  48 mins 25 secs

bro, business, contribution, crowdsec, firewall, idps, ids, ips, linux, open source, security, servers, snort, suricata

Philippe Humeau is the Founder of CrowdSec, a free, modern & collaborative behavior detection engine, coupled with a global IP reputation network.

Episode 26: Dr. Brian Callahan - Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an OpenBSD Developer

December 14th, 2021  |  1 hr 35 mins

apl, bsd, c, compilers, d, education, freebsd, growing up, j, languages, linux, open source, openbsd, ports, python, security, sociology, students, technology, university

Brian is a Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an OpenBSD Developer

Episode 25: Kim McMahon - Director of Visibility & Community Engagement at RISC-V International

December 7th, 2021  |  38 mins 20 secs

cloud native, collaboration, dell, development, foundation, hardware, isa, linux, open hardware, open source, open source hardware, risc-v, riscv, sgi, software, texaco

Kim McMahon is the Director of Visibility & Community Engagement at RISC-V International and a Co-Chair of the Open Hardware Diversity Alliance.

Episode 24: Timothy Pearson - Chief Technology Officer at Raptor Computing Systems

November 30th, 2021  |  1 hr 19 mins

freedom, linux, open hardware, open isa, open source, openpower, power9, raptor computing, security, talos

Timothy Pearson is the Chief Technology Officer at Raptor Computing Systems

Episode 23: Richard Brown - Linux Distribution Engineer at SUSE and former chairman of OpenSuSE

November 23rd, 2021  |  48 mins 12 secs

community, development, fedora, ibm, linux, management, mentorship, microsoft, novell, open source, opensuse, pull request, red hat, suse

Episode 22: Thomas Cameron - Open Source Advocate and Cloud Dude

November 2nd, 2021  |  1 hr 5 mins

amazon, aws, collaboration, community, conference, consulting, developer, linux, mentorship, microsoft, open source, red hat, samba, slackware, smb, training, windows

Thomas has been a long time Linux user and Advocate and has worked at the likes of Red Hat, Amazon, and others.

Episode 21: Gregory Kurtzer - Founder of CentOS, Rocky Linux, and CEO at Ctrl IQ

October 26th, 2021  |  1 hr 15 mins

ai, berkley, bioinformatics, business, centos, cluster, cray, enterprise, high performance computing, hpc, infiniband, linpack, linux, linux foundation, ml, mpi, national lab, networking, open source, open sourcelinux, openhpc, red hat, rocky linux, scientific computing, ssh, warewulf

Gregory is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Ctrl IQ, Inc and the Founder of CentOS and Rocky Linux.

Episode 20: Mark Himelstein - CTO RISC-V International

October 5th, 2021  |  34 mins 54 secs

collaboration, compiler, freedom, isa, linux, open source, open source hardware, open source software, risc-v, riscv, solaris, sun

Mark is the Chief Technology Officer at RISC-V International, a non-profit consortium chartered to standardize, protect, and promote the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture