FLOSS Weekly (Audio)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
FLOSS Weekly: FLOSS Weekly Continues at Hackaday - Hackaday is the new home of FLOSS Weekly
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
FLOSS Weekly continues with Jonathan Bennett at its new home at Hackaday. Host: Jonathan Bennett Visit hackaday.com/floss or search your favorite p...
FLOSS Weekly 761: We Won! - The Victories of Free Software and Open Source
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Dan Lynch, Simon Phipps, and Leo Laporte gather to celebrate the final victory of free software and open source—and...
FLOSS Weekly 760: Making Money In Open Source - Adam Jacob, Chef & System Initiative
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and o...
FLOSS Weekly 759: ActivityPub Crawl - Evan Prodromou on ActivityPub & OpenEarth
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett go deep into what's happening in the fediverse with Evan Prodromou, the co-creator of ActivityPub, the open protocol ...
FLOSS Weekly 758: Raiders of the Lost Source - Rocky and Oracle Unbreakable Linux, OpenAI Shakeup
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Dan Lynch explore long-standing ethical and technical imperatives of the free software and open source movements, and the wild new cha...
FLOSS Weekly 757: Noodling Around with OpenZiti - Philip Griffiths, OpenZiti and Secure Networking
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Philip Griffiths of OpenZiti explains to Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Jonathan Bennett how OpenZiti is on its way to becoming the Linux of secure ne...
FLOSS Weekly 756: We Won, Now What? - Luis Villa, Tidelift
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Luis Villa of Tidelift about how it helps code maintainers get paid, plus what's happening in AI, ML, regulatio...
FLOSS Weekly 755: Nextcloud - Frank Karlitschek, Nextcloud Growth and Updates
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Karlitschek joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Nextcloud. Nextcloud is a fast-growing open source collaboration platform that ...
FLOSS Weekly 754: Is He Still On? - Jon "maddog" Hall, Caninos Loucos, Open Source vs Free Software
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week was Jon "maddog" Hall, the Linux Legend, until his connection from Brazil dropped. At any rate, Dan Lynch and Doc Searls went dee...
FLOSS Weekly 753: Small Is Beautiful - Aral Balkan, Small Technology Foundation
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aral Balkan of the Small Technology Foundation talks with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch about the small web, the tame little server called Kitten, and muc...
FLOSS Weekly 752: Stalkers Beware - Cooper Quintin on Personal Privacy and TOR University Challenge
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cooper Quintin of the EFF treats Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman to plenty of wisdom about the extremes of constant personal privacy exposure onlin...
FLOSS Weekly 751: The Phipps Certification - EFF, AlmaLinux, Vehicle Software and Privacy
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen closely for The Phipps Certification, and you'll also get news about 3D printing, AlmaLinux, a big EFF win, spyware in new cars and other hot ...
FLOSS Weekly 750: AI: Just Make It Normal - IQXR, AI and Open Source
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Michael "Hoff" Hoffman, Co-founder and CEO of IQXR, about open source in AI, immersive technologies, and ...
FLOSS Weekly 749: That's In Chapter Three - Kyle Rankin, How To Write a Tech Book
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Writing a tech book is easy if you start with the proper guidance. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett get that guidance and much more from Kyle Rankin, ...
FLOSS Weekly 748: Show Me The ProofMode - Nathan Freitas, ProofMode
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Nathan Freitas, founder of the Guardian Project about ProofMode. A way to turn photos, videos, and other digita...
FLOSS Weekly 747: New, Hot, Big, and Doomed - Business Software License, OpenELA Initiative
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls, Dan Lynch, and Jonathan Bennett talk about what happens when open source companies get too big for the licenses that helped them get ther...
FLOSS Weekly 746: Don't Hesitate, Enculturate! - Claude Warren Jr, Open Source Culture
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Claude Warren, Jr. about open source culture going back to coffee shops in the 1600s, how open source manne...
FLOSS Weekly 745: The Buffer Bloke - Dave Taht, Music Collab, Private AI
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On FLOSS Weekly, Dave Taht takes a break and pauses while saving the world from bufferbloat to treat Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to delightful discourse...
FLOSS Weekly 744: A Chill Pirate Lawyer - Damien Riehl, Open Source and Legal Rights
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What lawsuits become frivolous in a digital age that just entered its AI epoch? Attorney Damien Riehl knows and is making it all happen with a raft o...
FLOSS Weekly 743: Data Is Surprisingly Exciting - Apache SeaTunnel, William Kwok
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
William Kwok speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about Apache SeaTunnel, an exciting and extremely useful open-source way to synchronize multiple...
FLOSS Weekly 742: Endless Sky, Endless Fun - Open Source Game Development
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Endless Sky is an open source game set in space with a great array of ships, settings, worlds, conditions, alien factions, and missions — plus a co...
FLOSS Weekly 741: This Is the F-Droid You're Looking For - Hans-Christoph Steiner, F-Droid
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Hans-Christoph Steiner about all things F-Droid: the non-Google app store for Android where you don't need an a...
FLOSS Weekly 740: Baking the Printer - Jonathan Bennett: A Bad Face For Radio, IBM and Red Hat
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Ant Pruitt talk with Jonathan Bennett about life, love, open source, and what's up with Red Hat. Also, how to bake a printer? Host: D...
FLOSS Weekly 739: Whose AI Is It Anyway? - AI Security, Decentralized Identifiers
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Golda Velez and Romeo Chukwuemeka talk with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly about big AI questions nobody else is asking—and gett...
FLOSS Weekly 738: Crossplane: Your Cockpit in the Cloud - Jared Watts, Nic Cope, Crossplane and Kubernetes
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jared Watts and Nic Cope, two founding engineers with Upbound and developers on Crossplane, join Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to discuss control p...
FLOSS Weekly 737: Live, LUG, and Rock On - Dan Lynch, Liverpool Linux User Group
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Liverpool musician and FLOSS co-host Dan Lynch about music, events, LUGs and histories past and future. Hosts:...
FLOSS Weekly 736: Don't Fear The AI - David Sifry, AI and Open Source
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Sifry gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman a deep, detailed, enthusiastic, and original take on what's up with AI from an open source angle....
FLOSS Weekly 735: FLOSS Without Borders - Ahmed Sobeh, Open Source in Developing Countries
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering Manager at Aiven, Ahmed Sobeh joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on FLOSS Weekly. What new stuff is happening with open source developmen...
FLOSS Weekly 734: Organic Maps - Roman Tsisyk, Organic Maps
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Roman Tsisyk, founder and top maintainer of Organic Maps, an extremely active and exciting open source pr...
FLOSS Weekly 733: Open Source Science - Tim Bonnemann, Open Source Science
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with Tim Bonneman about how to help open-source science follow the road to success paved by open-source software develo...
FLOSS Weekly 732: Update Your Kernels! - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel, Cyber Resilience Act
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Greg Kroah-Hartman, the veteran top-level Linux kernel maintainer, about the human side of how kernel developme...
FLOSS Weekly 731: Confidential Computing - Dan Middleton, Confidential Computing Consortium
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Middleton, of Intel and the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), dives deep on the topic of confidential computing (CoCo) and many related co...
FLOSS Weekly 730: Going Off the Grid with Meshtastic - Decentralized Open Source Mesh Network, Meshtastic
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Ben Meadors and Garth Vander Houwen of Meshtastic about adventures of many kinds—all using open source, o...
FLOSS Weekly 729: Commitment Issues - Stormy Peters, GitHub Accelerator
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stormy Peters, VP of Communities at GitHub speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly. Peters is one of the most passionate, committed, ...
FLOSS Weekly 728: Open Season On Open Source - Mike Milinkovich and the Cyber Resilience Act in Europe
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"What's going on with forming the Cyber Resilience Act in Europe has the potential to do enormous harm to the open source movement and to the future ...
FLOSS Weekly 727: Homomorphic Encryption: the Next Big Thing - Rand Hindi, Fully Homomorphic Encryption
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rand Hindi of Zama joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to discuss the importance of encryption and the benefits of homomorphic encryption. It's a great di...
FLOSS Weekly 726: Mojaloop and Digital Public Goods - Paula Hunter, Mojaloop, Unbanked World
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Hunter of Mojaloop talks with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about using open source, open data, open standards, open content, and other DPGs—...
FLOSS Weekly 725: VanillaOS on a Stick - Pietro di Caprio, VanillaOS
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pietro di Caprio joins Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers to discuss VanillaOS, a new Linux distro with a hot new feature: it's immutab...
FLOSS Weekly 724: The Wide World of Open Radio - Levi C. Maaia, Ham Radio
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Shawn Powers take a deep dive into the open source and open data slices of ham radio with Levi C. Maaia, an accomplished pilot, filmma...
FLOSS Weekly 723: Freedom to Fork - Open Source Communities & Democracy With Seth Frey
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How open source communities form, fork, and govern themselves are just a few of the many topics UC-Davis professor Seth Frey talks about with Doc Sea...
FLOSS Weekly 722: DIY Broadcasting With Open Source - Open Source Broadcasting, Tim Pozar and Brian David
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
DIY broadcasting with open source is a topic too big and fast-moving for just one show, so this is our second time around with Tim Pozar and Brian Da...
FLOSS Weekly 721: Hacking, Convergence and HyperPurism - Kyle Rankin, Purism, Mobile Phone & Linux Computing Convergence
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Rankin of Purism joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to talk about how his company's Linux laptop and Librem 5 phone converge with the company's n...
FLOSS Weekly 720: Fostering an Open Source Culture - Arun Gupta on Generative AI, OpenJDK, CNCF
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Arun Gupta, VP and General Manager of Open Ecosystems at Intel Corporation, joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Gupta ...
FLOSS Weekly 719: Let the Wiki Win! - Peter Kaminski, Decentralized vs Centralized, Massive Wiki
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Kaminski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch for a deep wikis (especially his Massive one), how AI helps us collaborate spatially in the natural vers...
FLOSS Weekly 718: Future of openSUSE Leap - Luboš Kocman, Douglas DeMaio, openSUSE Leap
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Luboš Kocman and Douglas DeMaio about openSUSE Leap, where it's going, and lots of related Linux and open ...
FLOSS Weekly 717: SCaLE Is Still Huge - Ilan Rabinovitch, SCaLE and Open Source Conferences
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ilan Rabinovitch explains to Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how SCaLE has grown to become the premier Linux and open-source conference—and to st...
FLOSS Weekly 716: Desperately Seeking Software Freedom - Christine Hall, FOSS Force, Software Freedom
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Hall gives Doc Searls and Simon Phipps a tour of the glorious past, troubling present, and uncertain future of free software and open sourc...
FLOSS Weekly 715: Lower Cloud Costs for Java - Bellsoft, Alpaquita Linux, Liberica JDK
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Belokrylov of Bellsoft tells Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett how Java has evolved into an ideal language for cloud infrastructure, especially th...
FLOSS Weekly 714: Sugar Labs and Music Blocks - Music Composition in Open Source, Devin Ulibarri and Walter Bender
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Devin Ulibarri and Walter Bender of Sugar Labs join Doc Searls and Dan Lynch on FLOSS Weekly. Searls and Lynch learn how kids can compose music and p...
FLOSS Weekly 713: "Let's Put Thoughts on the Blockchain" - LastPass Databreach, Linux Desktop 2023, Blockchain
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Jonathan Bennett kick off the new year with a round table discussion regarding the world of open source. The hosts...