We're joined by Sumana Harihareswara,
a FOSS advocate yes, but also a person of so many other talents!
We talk about sketching, standup comedy, and maintainership for the
long life of free software projects.
(Did you know you can hire Sumana to help on your FOSS project
maintainership btw?
Sumana runs Changeset Consulting!)
We also talk about representation in the FOSS community within the arts
(especially narrative arts), and about learning new skills within
"no big deal" contexts.Links:Changeset ConsultingSumana's LibrePlanet 2017 keynote:
Lessons, myths, and lenses: What I wish I'd known in 1998Producing Open Source SoftwareVidding and some of its origins in the
slideshow form
(in particular with Kandy Fong's
early works)More on fanworks and fan communities and their history at fanlore.orgVid: Pipeline by,
as it turns out, Sumana Harihareswara!Vid: Only a Lad by Laura ShapiroVid: Straightening Up the House by eruthros; also see all this other great commentary!The Bug by Ellen UllmanHalt and Catch FireThe Internet's Own Boy,
a film and play about Aaron Swartz,
which you can watch here in movie form
CORRECTION: Actually Sumana pointed us in the correct direction...
the play was Building a Real Boy,
a separate thing from the forementioned film!Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, and also the critical response Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic by Allison ParrishXKCDJulia Styles in GhostwriterSoftware Freedom Conservancy, who is doing a
fundraiser right now!Sumana's fundraising vid for Conservancy in 2015Chris's animated ascii art card for Conservancy in 2019
(source code)If you're interested in Sumana's upcoming book on long-term maintenance of
FOSS projects, you can contact her
for more info! UPDATE: Sampler released!