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18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government (Changelog Interviews #230) Nov 25, 2016

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From 18F — Hillary Hartley and Aidan Feldman joined the show to talk about how 18F is changing the way the federal government builds and buys digital services.

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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.

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Hillary Hartley – Twitter, GitHub
Aidan Feldman – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program brings the innovation economy into government, by pairing talented, diverse technologists and innovators with top civil-servants and change-makers within the federal government.
The White House’s Presidential Innovation Fellows program on Twitter
The Changelog #157: Building Bridges with Sarah Allen
The CC0 1.0 license - “Additionally, we waive copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.”
cloud.gov - The Government Innovation platform by government developers, for government developers.
analytics.usa.gov on GitHub
18F on GitHub
The System for Award Management (SAM) - certification for working as a vendor for the U.S. government
FedRAMP Ready Products
The Washington Post - Why a federal high-tech start-up is a money loser
Tom VanAntwerp on Medium - 18F is Hardly a Waste of Money
Join one of 18F’s Slack rooms
code.gov is the next milestone in federal open source code
Micro-purchase
Micro-purchase stats page
18F Guides
18F Open Source Style Guide

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Python, Django, and Channels (Changelog Interviews #229) Nov 25, 2016

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Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you’ve ever wondered why people love Python, what Django’s virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix’s Channels and Rails’ Action Cable, this is the show for you. Also: Andrew’s take on funding and sustaining open source efforts.

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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to Toptal.

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Andrew Godwin – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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This episode started on Ping
Django creators: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Willison
Python love: The Zen of Python
Python love: Great Docs – Requests as example
Jerod suggests RFC #5: Read/Write the Docs with Eric Holscher
Virtues: The Django admin site
Virtues: GeoDjango
Wikipedia has a list of well-known sites using Django
Andrew’s baby: Django Channels
Getting started with Django
Django South - consistent, easy-to-use and database-agnostic migrations for Django applications.
If sustainability is interesting to you, check out Request for Commits

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Funding the Web (Request For Commits #11) Nov 22, 2016

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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 are hard to solve for the Internet and the tradeoffs between centralization and distribution.

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Minio – Minio is an Amazon S3 compatible object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops. It’s also open source!

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Brendan Eich – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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Check out exploit kits like Angler Exploit Kit
Brave

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Servo and Rust (Changelog Interviews #228) Nov 18, 2016

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Jack Moffitt joined the show to talk about Servo, an experimental web browser layout engine. We talked about what the Servo project aims to achieve, six areas of performance, and what makes Rust a good fit for this effort.

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Hacker Paradise – Do you want to spend a month in South America, expenses paid, working on open source? We teamed up with Hacker Paradise to offer two Open Source Fellowships for a month on one of their upcoming trips to either Argentina or Peru.
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.

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Jack Moffitt – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Finding New Contributors (Request For Commits #10) Nov 15, 2016

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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 with new people.

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Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to Toptal.

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Charlotte Spencer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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Charlotte Spencer is a software developer who’s done a lot of notable work around making open source more approachable and is a core member of the Hoodie project.

First Pull Request — What was the first pull request you sent on GitHub?
Your First PR
Making Your First Pull Request
Open Open Source
Hoodie

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Mad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC (Changelog Interviews #227) Nov 11, 2016

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Feross Aboukhadijeh joined the show this week to talk with us about his backstory, passive income, WebTorrent, WebRTC, Electron and the ins and outs of packaging apps for all platforms.

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Rollbar – Put errors in their place! Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language.
Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to Toptal.
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Node.js Interactive – Node.js Interactive is a conference for the Node community focused on education and community building. Use the code CNGJS16 to get 15% off registration.

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Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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JavaScript Standard Style Guide
Study Notes is Feross’s passive income maker that enables him to work on open source and other stuff he’s interested in
FreeTheFlash - Hilarious media entertainment brought to you by FreeTheFlash Entertainment
Webmaster World
WebTorrent - A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop
WebTorrent Desktop is the desktop Torrent client built with Electron
WebTorrent Desktop on GitHub
Instant.io
The Changelog #216 - Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app built with Electron

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Juju, Jujucharms, Gorram (Go Time #24) Nov 10, 2016

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Nate Finch joined the show this week to talk about Juju, Charms, maturing a project along side Go, Gorram, finding your happy path, and more.

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StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications.
Code School – On Track With Go — Learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures in this new course for those getting started with Go.

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Nate Finch – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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juju - is devops distilled
jujucharms
Gorram - It’s like go run for any go function
Go Proverbs
Vanity Imports with Hugo

Free Software Friday

Erik: Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers
Carlisia: Kinetic - High-Performance AWS Kinesis Client for Go. An easier way to access kinesis shards and poll them etc, takes all that logic out and makes stuff easy.
Nate: Hugo - A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love in Go

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Open source and licensing (Request For Commits #9) Nov 04, 2016

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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 source licenses, and how lawyers keep up with an ever-changing landscape.

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Heather Meeker – Twitter, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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Heather has spent over twenty years on legal matters related to open source, and has published several books on open source software licensing.

Open Source for Business: A Practical Guide to Open Source Software Licensing
Technology Licensing: A Practitioner’s Guide
Checkout these useful links on Heather’s site about licenses and the legal side of open source
O’Melveny & Myers
Heather Meekers on O’Melveny & Myers

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Open Sourcing Chain's Developer Platform (Go Time #23) Nov 03, 2016

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Tess Rinearson joined the show to talk about Chain launching their open source developer platform, choosing an open source license, open sourcing Chain Core, and the future of this powerful blockchain written in Go.

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Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/mo. We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code gotime20 to get 2 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Code School – On Track With Go — Learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures in this new course for those getting started with Go.

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