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Away from Keyboard Away from Keyboard #3

Ashley Baxter is excited about… insurance?

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2018-08-01T17:00:00Z #culture +1 🎧 2,253

Thirteen years ago, Ashley Baxter inherited the family insurance business when her Dad passed away. Even though she’s a talented photographer, and built a successful photography business, the insurance industry kept calling her name. Ashley talks about what excites her about insurance, the challenges of running a business, and how burnout forced her to focus.

Away from Keyboard Away from Keyboard #2

Justin Jackson finds focus

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2018-07-18T17:00:00Z #culture +1 🎧 2,615

I first heard of Justin Jackson about six years ago. Back then, he was consulting full-time for a company with the dream of going independent. Fast forward to 2018, and after building a successful business, he’s now embarking on a new adventure. Justin talks about his parents, dealing with depression, and a new business he’s co-founded.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #52

Growing Open Collective

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2018-06-15T11:05:00Z #startups +1 🎧 4,058

Pia Mancini joined the show for the first episode back from a nearly 5 year hiatus. We talked about her work at DemocracyEarth, being a mother, her new role as CEO of Open Collective, their focus, supporting ad-hoc community formation all around the world, their revenue and growth plans, and their path to sustainability.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #290

That's it. This is the finale!

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2018-03-30T19:00:00Z #sustainability +1 🎧 19,086

We’re rebroadcasting the finale episode of the beloved Request For Commits. But don’t worry, The Changelog will be back with new episodes next week. In this finale episode of Request For Commits, we regroup to discuss the podcast from its start to its finish, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations around open source sustainability are taking place, now and in the future. It’s the end of Request For Commits, but the conversations we’ve had will continue on The Changelog. We also have some guest-host appearances for Nadia and Mikeal planned in the near future on this podcast. So, stay tuned.

Request For Commits Request For Commits #20

Finale, thank you!

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2018-03-21T15:00:00Z #sustainability +1 🎧 8,841

In this finale episode of Request For Commits – we regroup to discuss how we got here, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations around open source sustainability are taking place now and in the future. This might be the end of this podcast, but the conversation will continue on The Changelog. You should subscribe if you’re not already.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #281

Gitcoin: sustaining open source with cryptocurrency

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2018-01-26T20:00:00Z #sustainability +1 🎧 22,017

We’re joined by Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a platform to monetize or incentivize work in open source software. We talked about how Gitcoin sits at the intersection of sustaining open source and cryptocurrencies, their history and roadmap, their decision to leverage the brand name of Git, bug bounties, funded issues, web3, MetaMask, and the future of Gitcoin and how open source benefits.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #193

Funding open source

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2016-01-30T01:00:00Z #sustainability +1 🎧 32,311

Nadia Eghbal joined the show to discuss a HUGE topic that’s near and dear to our heart – funding open source! We discussed what it takes to fund open source software development, Nadia’s current investigative journalism efforts around funding open source (funded by the Ford Foundation), venture-backed open source projects, what it means for an open source project to be in good shape, some potential solutions to provide better long-term support for open source, and we tried to determine how much the open source of the world might be worth.

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