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 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 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 19: Kris Moore - Senior Vice President Of Engineering at iXsystems

September 7th, 2021  |  55 mins 17 secs

chia, development, freebsd, freenas, games, growing up, ixsystems, kubernetes, linux, microsoft, open source, openbsd, storage, truenas, windows

Kris is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at iXsystems and the developer behind the PC-BSD Project.

Episode 17: Tom Jones - FreeBSD Developer

July 27th, 2021  |  42 mins 6 secs

conferences, development, freebsd, internet, linux, networking, open source, streaming, unix, wireless

Tom Jones is an Internet Researcher and FreeBSD developer that works on improving the core protocols that drive the Internet. He is a contributor to open standards in the IETF and is enthusiastic about using FreeBSD as a platform to experiment with new networking ideas as they progress towards standardisation.

Episode 16: Aoife Moloney - Community Platform Engineering Team at Red Hat

July 20th, 2021  |  38 mins 47 secs

centos, community, development, family, growing up, ireland, linux, open source, red hat, teamwork, work life balance

Aoife is a member of the CPE Team at Red Hat

Episode 15: Mark Harding - CTO of Minds.com

July 13th, 2021  |  40 mins 53 secs

artificial intelligence, covid, development, freedom, linux, machine learning, open source, php, transparency

Mark Harding is the CTO of Minds.com, an open source Social Network that pays you for your content. We talk about how he got into Open Source Development, what let him to building a social network, and how AI fits into an open mindset.