Todd Gamblin – a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab – tells Nadia and Mikeal all about bringing open source to his peers in the national labs. They discuss what it’s like to open source a project inside the government, how Todd found contributors for Spack, why he got involved with NumFOCUS, and much more.

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Featuring:

Todd Gamblin – GitHub, X
Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

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