The collaborative nature of OSS is often overlooked by both individuals and companies at first. Contrary to that, developing projects in an open and collaborative environment is often the key to their success, think about programming languages as an example.
I had the opportunity to ask Brad Chamberlain about the history of the Chapel OSS project, which was created over 20 years ago.
Check out the latest MOSE podcast episode with Brad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENivDRCFr5w
I learned these 3 things:
- Successful programming languages have been developed as open source or consortium efforts
- Sometimes you need to aim for the skies rather than simplicity
- It’s never too late to move your open source project under a foundation
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The global open source ecosystem has millions of projects and observing and participating individuals, who are trying to find their ways to collaborate on activities and finding solutions to fulfill a shared mission. An ecosystem that large inevitably has challenges to remain a balanced, sustainable and welcoming environment. The My Open Source Experience Podcast collects and shares stories that describe people's experiences from their point of view. All experiences matter, the good, the bad, lessons that you've learned and challenges you still have. Your host, Ildiko Vancsa, is talking to open source, veterans, newbies, their managers, and just really, anybody who is either already involved in the open source ecosystem, or would like to. This podcast is all about the individuals, their voices and their experiences and what they've been through ever since they started to think about or getting involved in open source. The podcast is under the CC BY 4.0 license.
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