Whether you're a founder of an open source startup, an open source maintainer or just an open source enthusiast, join host Emily Omier as she talks to the people who work at the intersection of open source and business, from startup founders to leaders of open source giants and all the people who help open source startups grow.
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The host, Emily, currently works in criminal defence in the UK and, as a true crime fanatic, started The Student's Verdict blog which focused on cults, horrifying criminal cases and miscarriages of justice. Now she is stepping into the world of podcasting with The Student's Verdict podcast which will focus on historic criminal cases from the archives, missing persons cases and unusual deaths.
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Welcome to the Death and Tea Podcast where we stir up conversations about life and the afterlife. Join us as we explore the profound, the curious, and the sometimes whimsical aspects of our existence and what might come next. Whether through personal stories, expert interviews, or philosophical debates, we delve into the mysteries surrounding death and celebrate the beauty of life. Grab a cup of your favorite brew and settle in for a few thoughtful discussions that will challenge your perspe ...
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Candid interviews, insightful discussions, and firsthand testimonies, we aim to reveal both the obstacles and victories experienced by Veteran Service Officers, along with the benefits accessible to veterans.
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Tara Hunkin is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Certified GAPS Practitioner, mother and founder of My Child Will Thrive a resource that shares with you the latest science, tips, resources and tools to help you on the path to health and happiness for your child with ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, or learning disabilities. Tara's own experiences with her daughter -- combined with as much training as she can get her hands on, research she can dig into, and conferences she can att ...
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Agriculture is a part of our everyday lives! If you have an interest in plants, science or agriculture, tune in as we interview leading scientists, professionals and innovators in the agriculture industry. Plant Industry News is an audio newsletter for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Division of Plant Industry. Each episode will provide listeners with the opportunity to engage and participate in the conversation.
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative, about the definition of open source and… the definition of open source AI. We recorded this episode on-site at All Things Open, so there’s a little bit of background noise. We talked about why OSI felt like it needed to develop…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Anais Concepcion and Paul Fitzpatrick , the co-CEO of Grist Labs and CTO of Grist Labs. We talked about managing growth of users versus growth of revenue, moving to an open source approach for technical, not technical, reasons, and open-source related product management questions for open sourc…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Eric Holscher, co-founder of Read the Docs. We had a really far-ranging conversation that included talking about why documentation is often so bad, why documentation should be a priority, but also Eric’s experience building Read the Docs and Write the Docs. This episode was interesting because …
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Today on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Chris Holmes, co-founder and CEO of Greymatter. Greymatter is deeply involved in the open source ecosystem and maintains the Go Envoy Control Plane, but Chris is adamant that it is not an open source company. We had a great discussion about why that is, what it means for the company and the convers…
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This week on the Business of Open Source, I spoke with David Höck, co-founder of Vendure. We talked about switching licenses from MIT to GPL, the ways that Vendure is different from it’s competitors and how architectural decisions can be a powerful differentiator for an open source company. Favorite quote: “You need to build your product together w…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I talked with Allard Buijze, the CTO and founder at AxonIQ. We talked a lot about the importance of open source for getting feedback on your product and validating your idea — or not. One of the things we talked about was how the beginning of AxonIQ was tied to the same consultancy that developed Spring Sou…
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EP23: The Legal Side of Dying
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Robert W. Haley is a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Elder Law (and Cricket, AKA Ryvyn's husband). In this episode, Robert and Cricket discuss all the common questions people have about pre-planning for the end-of-life, the funeral, Powers of Attorney, Health Care documents, The Living Will and the Last Will & Testament. We even discuss how to h…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Robert Hodges, CEO of Altinity. This is a great example of an open source company that is built on top of an open source project, ClickHouse, that they did not create and still do not have direct control over. Altinity has created and maintains other open source projects in the ClickHouse ecosy…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Jesse Williams and Brad Micklea, co-founders of Jozu and each with a long history of experience in various open source companies behind them. Even though Jozu is young, there was a lot to learn from these two and their experience in both open source and non-open source businesses. We talked abo…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Jimmy Zelinskie, co-founder and CPO of Authzed, which is behind SpiceDB. We kicked off the discussion with a really interesting discussion about whether or not SpiceDB is a database and whether or not Authzed is a database company. At first they didn’t see it that way, but as soon as they start…
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This week on the Business of Open Source I had Galeal Zino, CEO and founder of NetFoundry, which creates OpenZiti. One of the most interesting things about the this conversation was the conversation about how to balance whether you’re promoting the product or the project. I talk to a lot of founders who assume that because you have both, you have t…
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EP22: An Energy Healer's Book of Dying
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Suzanne Worthley is an energy healing practitioner and intuitive who has focused on death and dying for 20 years. She has played a vital role in partnership with families and hospice teams, helping the dying have a peaceful transition and helping families and caregivers understand what is happening and energetically during the process.…
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Pretix founder and CEO Raphael Michel has a completely different philosophy about what he is building compared to the big players in the event / ticketing platform space. We had a great conversation this week about Pretix, how Pretix is positioned compared to big players, and who care about the fact that Pretix is an open source company. Some takea…
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This week on the The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Ashraf Samhouri, the CEO and co-founder of Activepieces. Activepieces didn’t start as an open source company — and we started out the conversation by talking about why it was important to take an open source route because Activepieces is building an ecosystem. Some other highlights from the…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Per Ploug Krogslund, who is currently senior director of developer programs at Docker, and who previously had a number of experiences at the intersection of open source and business. He founded and ran an open source company, Umbraco, for many years, and also led the Open Source Program Office …
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I talked with Tom Wilkie, CTO at Grafana Labs. We talked about how he had a 10-month run building a startup before ultimately joining Grafana in an acquisition — why he thought that was the right move at the time and how it’s developed since then. But Tom has also had a long career in open source businesses…
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EP21: An Interview with a Dying Man, Meet Steve Hodges
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In this episode, Cricket speaks with Steve Hodges, a pianist, cancer survivor and coach, hospice volunteer, and he is dying. This conversation goes deep into the places most people are not comfortable with, Steve is willing to be open and revealing about his experiences from both sides of the aisle. Hail the Traveler to Steve for sharing his unique…
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This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Mike Milinkovich, executive director at the Eclipse Foundation. We had a wide-ranging conversation about the role of open source foundations in the open source ecosystem, especially as related to open source businesses. The existence of open source foundations, and how companies decide to engage…
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What if you could navigate property tax exemptions like a pro and discover the little-known financial perks that could change your life? Join us on the latest VAC Podcast episode as we welcome VSO Ray Richmond and Luz Ortiz-Rivera. Luz shares a humorous twist with her impressively lengthy name and minuscule handwriting, making for some light-hearte…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Vinoth Chandar, the founder and CEO of Onehouse and the creator of Apache Hudi. We took a pretty deep dive into the relationship between Onehouse and Hudi, a topic that for me is at the heart of building a company on top of an open source project. In fact, whether or not Onehouse is an ‘open so…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Joe Duffy, co-founder and CEO of Pulumi. We kicked off the conversation by talking about why Pulumi is open source in the first place — a mix of Joe’s long-standing interest in open source and a feeling like a developer tool like Pulumi just has to be open source in order to be taken seriously.…
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EP20: Old City Cemetery and the Grim Reaper
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This episode is an in-depth discussion with Jay Brooks the Executive Director of The Old City Cemetary of Lynchburg Virginia. This unique Grave Garden is not only 200 years old with fascinating residents. It is also an extensive Arboretum providing the community with classes for Master Gardners, Headstone restoration enthusiasts, genealogy assistan…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Tyler Jewell — for the second time, now. Last time I spoke with Tyler, he was an investor at Dell Technologies Capital, he’s since taken over as CEO of Lightbend. We talked about a lot, but there was a definite theme to our conversation: License changes. Lightbend had been running an open core …
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This week on The Business of Open Source I have an episode I recorded on site at AI-Dev in Paris with Justin Cormack, CTO of Docker. We finally get around to talking about AI at the very end of the episode, but otherwise we talked business and open source and how Docker manages both. Here’s some of the take aways from the episode: There are upsides…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Karthik Ranganathan, founder and co-CEO of Yugabyte. This is the second time Karthik has been on the podcast, but since three years had passed I thought it’d be a good idea to catch up and see what’s changed at Yugabyte and how his perspective on the open source commercial ecosystem has changed…
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Ensuring the Difference in Value between Project and Product is Big Enough with André Eriksson
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with André Eriksson, founder and CEO at Encore. We talked about how open source develops trust, something I also discussed in the episode I recorded with Reshma Khilnani. For Encore, it’s subtly different, though. In the case of Medplum, open source is a differentiator in a market that’s used to bla…
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EP19: Ancestor Veneration with Tyler Coles
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Embark on a mystical odyssey as we explore the timeless bond between the living and the departed. In this enlightening episode, Unitarian Minister Tyler Coles, hailing from deep family roots found "where the water kisses the Earth" in Roanoke VA, delves into the sacred art of honoring our ancestors and the beloved dead. Discover the profound ritual…
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Veterans Court 17th Judicial Circuit Court - Interview with Emily Behnke Deputy Court Administrator Specialized Court Programs
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In this episode we review a Specialized Court Program for Veteran's, Veterans Court. 17th Judicial Circuit Court Winnebago County and Boone County - Veterans Court The Winnebago County Veterans Court was established in 2012 to help rebuild the lives of Veterans who are charged with felony or misdemeanor offenses who have an underlying substance use…
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This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Saurav Pathak, chief product officier at Bagisto, about a very different kind of business relationship with open source — and open source software incubated in a larger company. There were tons of interesting nuggets in this episode, but some things I wanted to call out are: For open source proj…
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This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Tanmai Gopal, co-founder of Hasura. We talked about how Hasura grew out of Tanmai’s previous company, which was a consulting company. I like to call out examples of really novel open source businesses, but in fact the thing that stuck with me from the conversation with Tanmai was that Hasura is …
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This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Reshma Khilnani, CEO and founder of Medplum. Medplum is an open source electronic health record development platform, and one of the things I loved about this conversation is that Reshma is so focused on the healthcare industry — a level of focus that I find relatively rare in open source compan…
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EP18: Discussing Last Rites with Todd Harra
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In this episode, we speak with Todd Harra, co-author of the Amazon bestselling books Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt and Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid, as well as the Clip Undertaker mystery series, Grave Matters and Patient Zero, and more recently the funeral history book, Last Rites: The Evolution of the America…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Adam Jacob, founder and CEO of System Initiative and formerly the CTO and co-founder at Chef. We had a wide-ranging conversation that at times veered into the philosophical (what is the meaning for ‘strategy’?) but also has plenty of concrete, practical insights. We talked about: The difference…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I had a very different sort of guest — Mark Boost, the CEO and founder of Civo. We talked not only about Mark’s history as an entrepreneur, but also Civo’s recent acquisition of KubeFirst. This topic caught my eye because it’s not often I get an offer to talk with an acquirer of open source companies, and I…
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Full Real Estate Tax Exemption For Veterans - Interview with Tom Hodges Supervisor of Assessments
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Tom Hodges the Supervisor of Assessments reviews property tax exemptions for returning and service connected Veterans in Illinois. The role of the Supervisor of Assessments is to serve taxpayers, Township Assessors and the Board of Review in a professional, helpful and friendly manner while ensuring the timely and accurate processing of assessments…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype. In addition to having a really interesting discussion about the usual topic of how to build a business around open source software, we also had a good conversation about security — it was hard to avoid, because we recorded this right after the xz backd…
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We take a deep dive into the transition from military life to Veteran Service Officer. Tune in, sit back and listen to Ray's story.Di Jesus M Pereira
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This week on The Business of Open Source I had Rod Johnson, founder/CEO of Spring Source and creator of the Spring Framework (as well as board member of many other open source companies) on to talk about Spring, monetizing open source and what’s changed in the open source ecosystem since 2008. Key takeaways: Consulting was burning the entire team o…
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EP17: Preventing Dementia: Insights from Dr. Emily and Mitchell Clionsky
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In this episode, we chat with Dr. Emily and Mitchell Clionsky to discuss their book, "Dementia Prevention" and other related topics on what may cause this condition. Dr. Emily Clionsky combines internal medicine, psychiatry, and neurology to focus exclusively on patients with dementia and cognitive impairment and Dr. Mitchell Clionsky is a board-ce…
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Taking a hard look at what community means and if every OSS company needs one with Deepak Prabhakara
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with BoxyHQ co-founder and CEO Deepak Prabhakara. We talked about a number of things, from BoxyHQ’s relationship with its open source project, called SAML Jackson to how to build a growth flywheel and how that flywheel does and does not depend on a community. Is BoxyHQ a security company? Does it ma…
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In the second episode that I recorded on-site at KubeCon EU in Paris, I spoke with Alex Olivier, CPO and co-founder of Cerbos. This was not a general discussion: It was focused on the process that Cerbos went through to figure out pricing. Here’s what we talked about: The first step of figuring out your pricing is not the number, but rather what yo…
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This week, I had a dilemma: should I prioritize the episode where I spoke with one of the MariaDB co-founders, in which we discuss setting up a foundation as a way to ensure that the project continues to be open source in the future, no matter what (relevant given the Redis announcement); or should I prioritize the conversation with one of the foun…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I have an episode recorded on site at KubeCon EU in Paris with William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant. We had a fabulous conversation, which touched on some touchy subjects, including Buoyant’s slightly changing relationship with Linkerd. But we talked about: Being an open source mercenary, but also being dedicated…
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This week on The Business of Open Source I talked to Heather Meeker, General Partner of OSS Capital and author of From Project to Profit, How to Build a Business around your Open Source Project. We talked about some things that I entirely agree with, and then there were some points I challenged Heather on — all in all, it was fabulous conversation.…
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This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Pranay Prateek, co-founder of SigNoz. Pranay talked about why open source is important to SigNoz's business, why it's super important to deliver value quickly, even for an observability product, and why founders shouldn't think of open source just as a distribution model. We also covered: How Si…
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OSFS Special Episode: Being a Strategic Acquisition Target as an OSS Company with Thomas Di Giacomo
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In this special episode to promote Open Source Founders Summit, I went deep with Thomas di Giacomo about how open source companies can position themselves as attractive acquisition targets for strategic buyers. If you are the founder of an open source company and you have the idea of being acquired even in the back of your mind, this is a must-list…
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EP16: The Craft of Dying, A discussion with Dr Ara Francis
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The Craft of Dying was written by Lyn H. Lofland in 1978, this timeless book was written at the beginning of the death-positive movement. In this episode, Dr. Ara Fransis discusses the book, the era for which it was chronicling and how Lofland's assertions are still an accurate gauge of today's death services and activism.…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Zach Wasserman, co-founder and CTO of Fleet. This was a fabulous episode for many reasons, but then again I never do crappy episodes, right? The first thing I wanted to call your attention to is that Zach talked about how he’s building an open core business because building an open source busin…
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Slightly different The Business of Open Source episode today! I spoke with Patrick McFadin and Mick Semb Wever about the relationship between Apache Cassandra and DataStax — how it was at the beginning and how the relationship has evolved over the years. We talked about: — How there was a dynamic around Cassandra where many of the many of the contr…
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In this episode of the Open Source Founders Podcast, I talked with Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud. Frank is going to be talking specifically about lead generation at Open Source Founders Summit, but in this episode we took a slightly wider view and talked about go to market, for open source companies in general and specifically for…
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