In this special episode of Request For Commits we close out the first season with a look behind the scenes of the show. We talked about how the show was formed, who’s involved and why, how we approach producing this show, our theme music, as well as our plans and timing for season 2.

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Featuring:

Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

We will begin production of season 2 in Q1 of 2017 and release in Q2. Subscribe to the master feed to get all Changelog podcasts and Changelog Weekly so you don’t skip a beat.

The theme music for RFC was created by Breakmaster Cylinder — Listen to it on Bandcamp
The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
If you haven’t yet, read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
Open Source, Then and Now with Karl Fogel (author of Producing Open Source Software) — Part 1 and Part 2
Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? with Max Ogden, creator of Dat
Funding the Web with Brendan Eich

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