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Date Title & Description Contributors
2016-11-22

  11: Funding the Web with Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich, founder of Brave and creator of JavaScript, joined the show to talk about the history of the web, how it has been funded, and the backstory on the early browser wars and emerging monetization models. We also talked about why big problems ...
  Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers author
2016-11-15

  10: Finding New Contributors with Charlotte Spencer

Charlotte Spencer joined the show to talk about making open source more approachable, Your First PR, helping people make their first open source contribution, attracting new contributors, and what projects can do to bring in, retain, and communicate wi...
  Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers author
2016-11-04

  9: Open Source& Licenses with Heather Meeker

Heather Meeker joined the show to talk about open source licensing, why open source licenses are historically significant, how much developers really need to know, and how much developers think they know. We also talk about mixing commercial and open s...
  Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers author
2016-10-18

  8: Open Source and Business with David Cramer& Isaac Schlueter

David Cramer (CEO of Sentry) and Isaac Schlueter (CEO of npm) joined the show to talk about building businesses in open source, why they decided to turn their side projects into full-time work, how they experimented with finding steady sources of reven...
  Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers author
2016-09-08

  7: Liberal Contribution and Governance Models with Rod Vagg

On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal talk with Rod Vagg, Chief Node Officer at NodeSource, about liberal contribution agreements and the underlying mechanics of liberal contribution management, how to level up casual contributors, how projects transition i...
  Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers author
2016-09-01

  6: Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? with Max Ogden

On today's show Nadia and Mikeal talk with Max Ogden, creator of Dat, an open source, decentralized tool for distributing data sets. Max has also done a lot of work in the Node.js ecosystem, including helping start NodeSchool and publishing hundreds of...
  Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers author
2016-08-25

  5: Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions with Eric Holscher

On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Eric Holscher to discuss non-code contributions, how they are regarded in open source culture, their value, and how to incentivize this type of work. They also talked about how Read the Docs grew a documen...
  Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers author
2016-08-18

  4: Building Communities with Jan Lehnardt

On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Jan Lehnardt to discuss the value of building communities to reduce burden on maintainers and create sustainable projects, how communities help grow a project, and contributor models.SponsorsToptal –  Scal...
  Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers author
2016-08-11

  3: Measuring Success in Open Source with Andrew Nesbitt and Arfon Smith

On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Andrew Nesbitt and Arfon Smith to talk about open source metrics, and how to interpret data around dependencies and usage. They talked about what we currently can, and can not measure in today’s open sourc...
  Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers author
2016-08-04

  2: Open Source, Then and Now (Part 2) with Karl Fogel

Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers kick off Season 1 of Request For Commits with a two part conversation with Karl Fogel — a software developer who has been active in open source since its inception.SponsorsLinode –  Our cloud server of choice! This is wha...
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