FLOSS Weekly

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FLOSS Weekly
Image:FLOSS Weekly logo.jpg
Current Logo
Hosting Chris DiBona
Leo Laporte
Randal L. Schwartz
Language English
 RSS http://leoville.tv/podcasts/floss.xml
Updates Infrequent
Length ~60 minutes
Audio format mp3
Debut April 7, 2006
Genre Interview
Provider TWiT.tv
Website http://www.twit.tv/floss
Randal Schwartz, the current co-host of FLOSS Weekly.
Randal Schwartz, the current co-host of FLOSS Weekly.
Chris DiBona, the previous co-host of FLOSS Weekly.
Chris DiBona, the previous co-host of FLOSS Weekly.

FLOSS Weekly is a free software / open source (FLOSS) themed podcast from the TWiT Network. The show premiered on April 7, 2006, and features prominent guests from the free software/open source community. It is hosted by Leo Laporte; his cohost for the first seventeen episodes was Chris DiBona and subsequently Randal Schwartz.

In October 2006, FLOSS Weekly had 31,661 downloads of episode 14.[1]

[edit] Episode list

URL Date Guest Project / Company
Episode 1 April 7, 2006 Chris DiBona Google
Episode 2 April 14, 2006 Ben Goodger Mozilla Firefox
Episode 3 April 22, 2006 Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Slashdot
Episode 4 May 3, 2006 Brad Fitzpatrick
chromatic
LiveJournal
Perl
Episode 5 May 12, 2006 Miguel de Icaza GNOME / Mono
Episode 6 May 19, 2006 Larry Augustin VA Software
Episode 7 May 26, 2006 Jimmy Wales Wikimedia Foundation
Episode 8 June 16, 2006 Ryan Gordon Simple DirectMedia Layer
Episode 9 July 15, 2006 Randal Schwartz Perl
Episode 10 July 22, 2006 Jeff Bates Slashdot
Episode 11 August 4, 2006 Guido van Rossum Python
Episode 12 August 11, 2006 Rasmus Lerdorf PHP
Episode 13 September 27, 2006 Eben Moglen Free Software Foundation
Episode 14 October 13, 2006 Jeremy Allison Samba
Episode 15 November 10, 2006 Tarus Balog OpenNMS
Episode 16 February 21, 2007 Jeff Waugh linux.conf.au
Episode 17 March 24, 2007 Jon "maddog" Hall Linux International
Episode 18 July 21, 2007 Josh Berkus PostgreSQL
Episode 19 September 1, 2007 Junio Hamano git
Episode 20 October 17, 2007 Jay Shirley Catalyst
Episode 21 November 23, 2007 Avi Bryant Seaside Smalltalk Web Application Framework
Episode 22 December 22, 2007 Fernanda Weiden Google
Episode 23 January 4, 2008 Nate Koechley Yahoo! UI Library
Episode 24 February 8, 2008 David Kirk Buck
Chris Cason
POV-Ray
Episode 25 February 29, 2008 Campbell Barton
Brecht van Lommel
Blender
Episode 26 March 7, 2008 D. Richard Hipp SQLite
Episode 27 March 21, 2008 Ward Cunningham WikiWikiWeb, the first Wiki
AboutUs.org
Episode 28 April 4, 2008 Greg Stein WebDAV
Google
Episode 29 May 23, 2008 Dan Ingalls Smalltalk
Squeak

[edit] References

  1. ^ Leo Laporte (2006-11-21). October Numbers. Leo Laporte's blog. TWiT.tv. Retrieved on 2007-07-12. “FLOSS Weekly 14 31,661”

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