Guests: Ken Udas Georg Link Notes: Hello and welcome to Impactful Open Source, the podcast where we talk about using open source code to make an impact on the world at large, in particular through cities, universities, or governments. Today, I have two special guests, Ken Udas, who is the Program Officer at Open Source Technology Management Program at Brandeis University, where he has been founding a new course on open source, and Georg Link, one of the teachers there and the Director of Sales at Bitergia and Founder of the CHAOSS Project. We will learn all about the program at Brandeis Univer ..read more

Guest Philippe Bareille Show Notes Hello and welcome to Impactful Open Source, the podcast where we talk about starting with source code and ending with societal change. Today, my special guest is Philippe Bareille, who works for the city of Paris as a Technical Project Manager. We learn all about the Lutece Project, how many people work on the project and in general for the city, what it does for the citizens in Paris, how the governance works, and how are they collaborating internationally using open source with Johns Hopkins University and the city of Budapest. As a city, Paris has an oblig ..read more

Guest Stephen Jacobs Show Notes My guest today is Stephen Jacobs, a Professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media at Rochester and the Director of Open@RIT. Find out what Open@RIT is and how Stephen got into his open source journey. We also learn how Stephen Jacobs started an Open Source Program Office at RIT, the grant that was given to him by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and more about the Critical Digital Infrastructure Program. [00:01:00] Stephen tells us what Open@RIT is and how he got into open source. [00:03:44] We learn about Stephen’s involvement in One Laptop per Child an ..read more

Guest Sayeed Choudhury Show Notes Today, my guest is Sayeed Choudhury, who works at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore. He tells us the interesting work he’s done with his open source program office at Johns Hopkins. He also talks about the four pillars of academia, and all the work that Johns Hopkins has done in helping with COVID - one being the COVID Map, which started as a research project and has become a worldwide resource. Also, we learn how Johns Hopkins is helping the St. Francis Neighborhood Center in Baltimore. [00:00:51] Sayeed’s been doing some interesting work on set ..read more

Here, I cover what I am planning with this podcast: how I want to talk about open source that has gone through institutions, governments, cities, OSPOs, NGOs, universities, and everything in between to make a difference in the world ..read more