In this, our first episode, our founder Schalk Neethling speaks with Jennifer Riggins, a tech journalist who frequently writes about open source, diversity and inclusion, and community. During the conversation, they touched on various topics related to open source and the tech industry. Topics include community health, licensing, and what is an open-source company even. Why diversity is important to open source and tech in general, and several other important topics.

This podcast is recorded using Riverside and produced by Mechanical Ink. Join the conversation on Discord, and learn more about Mechanical Ink on our website.

Links

• Jennifer Riggins on LinkedIn
• The New Stack
• WTF is wrong with open-source communities
• Linux Foundation DEI Survey
• Jennifer Riggins - Cloud Native Blog
• Google Open Source
• Zoom’s Virtual Background Feature Isn’t Built for Black Faces
• Ethical Source
• Ghost.org
• Where is Stripe available?
• Stripe Atlas
• Beat Affinity Bias with Open Source Diversity and Inclusion
• GitHub for mobile
• How Many Africans Contribute to Open Source Software?
• Mozilla
• The state of Mozilla
• CHAOSS community
• Gender differences and bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men
• Introducing Sign Language View for Teams Meetings
• Microsoft adaptive hardware
• UKGov A11y
• Fear and Layoffs: How to Cope with Tech’s Uncertain Times