SBTB 2023: Avi Press, Why Haskell is a Terrible Choice for Startups (And Why We Picked It Anyway)

Welcome to the comedy of errors that is our tale of four tumultuous, yet rewarding, years deploying Haskell in a production environment at Scarf... #haskell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4S_6FXsp4

Last week @aviaviavi &I had a conversation about the biggest lies we here over and over in the #opensource community. It was part of a longer discussion, but for those interested, I included the clip as well as the list of common mistruths I hear over and over again.

Do you agree? Did I miss something?

https://youtu.be/c_-x8A02mrI

@aviaviavi and i have been watching the news over the last few weeks and decided to record our thoughts on some of the more interesting news in the #opensource space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0WvgqtjFw&list=PLS9wrEdf4JzU6loWyll1LhMj5G90LMT_1&index=1

Something new! @aviaviavi and I have released the first "Director's Cut" of a talk. The idea is to get some excellent conference talks in the open source space and dig deeper. In the first episode, Bruce Momjian (EDB, #postgresql community) gave us a deep take on building #opensource teams.

Got a talk to suggest? Let me know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vh1yX75F00

Last week we saw more tech #layoffs and some more concerns raised about the possible impact on #opensource ... @aviaviavi, & I decided to share our thoughts and walk through some of the news stories. Is there a deeper question behind the WTF is happening in tech, and open source? Watch or listen in if you are interested in hearing me rant about the impact of the economy, big business, and layoffs on the #opensource community.

Watch: https://youtu.be/tzB9oNbxSV0

Listen:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2055750/12296514

While it is awesome that you can count the number of users or the number of customers a project has, do you know why they became users or customers in the first place? Most people need help with what sort of activities lead towards conversion from interested person to #opensource user or from #opensource user to customer. In today’s short, we dig into “Conversion Ratios! “

https://youtu.be/lpVq8enhvl8

This is short #13/23, talking about oss metrics.

Read the guidebook:

https://opensourcemetrics.org/

@birthmarkbart ( @dokcommunity ) recently talked with @aviaviavi and @TheYonk about potentially having too much content being generated for their community. Listen to this clip from a recent Hacking #opensource Business Podcast episode.

https://youtu.be/D3HB0uevpt8