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One can look at sustainability through a number of different but related lenses. What incentives (and education) needs to be in place for manufacturers to maintain their devices and, in the process, engage more with upstream communities?

This podcast dives into some of the key issues covered at FOSDEM 2020 in Brussels around "ethical licenses" and related issues.

Red Hat Research is dedicated to connecting researchers around the world with Red Hat engineers, customers, and partners to move great research ideas into open source communities.

Cloud testbeds enable research that requires peeling back cloud computing abstractions.

What do you do when a project outgrows its original role as an internal company project written for its own purposes?

In this podcast, Manifold's Matt Creager and Leah Rivers talk about bringing down barriers to open source commercialization and why it needs to be easier to package and sell software.

In this podcast, we covered API management and service meshes for microservices--and why microservices can be challenging. We also got into the business side to talk business models around open source and the creation of communities.

Chris Aniszczyk heads developer relations for the Linux Foundation. In this podcast, Chris takes us through what open governance means, approaches to open source sustainability, the problem with donations, and governance best practices including naming.

Matt Broberg is technical editor for opensource.com. In this episode, he takes us through what Developer Relation is, how to measure its value, the "soul" between the data points, and some of the ways in which DevRel roles can vary from company to company.

In this podcast, I talk with Red Hat's Steve Huels, Sherard Griffin, and Pete MacKinnon about the motivations behind OpenDataHub, the open source projects that make it up, how OpenDataHub works in concert with Kubernetes and Operators, and how it reflects a general trends towards open source communities working together in new ways.

Brian Behlendorf has a long history in open source going back to his co-founding of Apache. Today, he's the executive director of the Hyperledger Foundation. In this podcast, Brian takes us through some of his motivations in the early days of Apache, the tension between pragmatism and idealism in free and open source software, and why he's excited about distributed ledgers.

On August 21, the Linux Foundation announced the intent to form the Confidential Computing Consortium, a community dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing. In this podcast, recorded at devconf.us just prior to this announcement, we discuss issues of trust and security broadly as well as Red Hat Enarx, a project providing hardware independence for securing applications using TEEs, that will be contributed to this consortium.

Hugh Brock is Research Director at Red Hat. In this podcast, Hugh discusses how open source makes the way Red Hat approaches research different from the way it's done at other companies. He also talks about how the resarch program got started and, in particular, the role that Boston University has played.

William Henry is a senior distinguished engineer at Red Hat who has been involved with open source since Slackware. In this podcast, William takes us through some of tensions in the open source world, including those between innovation and standardization, which have taken many forms over the years.