GR-OSS OUT Podcast

This podcast takes an honest and unvarnished look at the reality of contributing to open source software projects. Too often, the open source community can paint an idealized picture of seamless collaboration and frictionless progress. But the truth is, working on OSS projects can be challenging, messy, and at times, downright frustrating. From conflicting opinions and coding philosophies to project politics and ownership disputes, there are many potential pitfalls. That's why this podcast gives voice to the personal experiences of actual open source contributors and influencers. They'll share the unfiltered ups and downs they've faced working on real projects. You'll hear war stories of coding battles, community dramas, and those weekly agonizing pull request reviews. But it's not all horror stories! You'll also learn valuable lessons about persevering through challenges, building consensus, and ultimately creating robust open source software that delivers value. Guests will provide i

GR-OSS OUT Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by G-Research Open Source Software, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  OpenStack Ironic and the MLH Fellowshipwith CID

  Aug 18, 202629 min

  In this episode of the GROSS Out Podcast, host Tabitha DiDomenico talks with CID, a software engineer and maintainer on the OpenStack Ironic project at G-Research. CID explains what OpenStack Ironic does — provisioning and managing bare metal (physical) servers the same way you'd manage a cloud instance — covering the full server lifecycle from enrollment and cleaning to firmware updates and deployment. CID also share his journey from ALX (African Leadership X), the MLH Fellowship to full-time open source maintainer of OpenStack Ironic and how it changed his life. The conversation covers: What OpenStack Ironic is and the problem it solves for bare metal provisioning Runbooks, a feature for predefining and scoping automation steps across servers, and the upcoming Version 2 (V2) improvements Why this release cycle has focused heavily on security advisories and vulnerability backports across four stable release branches CID's path from the Major League Hacking (MLH) Fellowship and the African Leadership Experience (ALX) software engineering program to becoming a full-time open source maintainer The realities of open source code review, the anxiety of working in public, and why backward compatibility is one of the most overlooked but critical skills in maintaining large infrastructure projects CID's advice for anyone facing rejection from a fellowship or open source community Links CID's Blog - https://auditorical.com/ OpenStack Ironic - https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic MLH Fellowship - https://fellowship.mlh.com/ ALX - https://www.alxafrica.com/ Eventlet - https://evenlet.net/ Runbooks - https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/admin/runbooks.html G-Research is hiring in Dallas, TX and London, UK! Apply at https://gresearch.com/vacancies . For a video version of this podcast, check out https://youtu.be/fbsI8l-MaFA . The GR-OSS OUT Podcast is produced by Ben Wiley. Special Guest: CID.

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  Imposter Syndrome: The OODA Loop Framework from Fighter Pilots with Major Hayden

  Jul 16, 202640 min

  Major Hayden — longtime Fedora packager and Red Hat engineer, formerly of Rackspace — joins host Jay Faulkner to talk about imposter syndrome in tech, and the framework he's used for over a decade to work through it: the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act), originally developed for fighter pilot decision-making. Major explains why imposter syndrome tends to resurface with every new team or stretch role, why that's often a sign of growth rather than a warning sign, and how he mentors engineers moving into core maintainer roles. He also shares his personal rule for using AI responsibly in open source work — if he can't independently explain a piece of code, he won't submit it — and tells the story of a kernel patch that drew a detailed, frustrated response from Linux kernel maintainer Alan Cox. Also discussed: reading audience reaction after a talk that didn't land, the culture of the Fedora Linux community, and why documenting tribal knowledge is easier to justify now that AI coding agents rely on it too. Important Links Major Hayden's Blog https://major.io/ Zellij - https://zellij.dev Pytorch - https://pytorch.org G-Research is hiring in Dallas, TX and London, UK! Apply at https://gresearch.com/vacancies . For a video version of this podcast, check out https://youtu.be/MFU-0hZ47zU . The GR-OSS OUT Podcast is produced by Ben Wiley. Special Guest: Major Hayden.

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  The Rust Foundation with Lori Lorusso and David Wood

  Jun 18, 202635 minS0

  <p>Lori Lorusso, Director of Outreach at the Rust Foundation, and David Wood, a Rust Project Director and engineer at ARM, join host Jay Faulkner to talk about what the Rust Foundation actually does behind the scenes — funding infrastructure, employing security engineers, and running a maintainer funding program for contributors who aren't backed by a sponsoring company.</p> <p>The conversation covers Rust's path from a Mozilla research project to safety-critical infrastructure in operating systems, browsers, and even vehicles, plus a deep dive into why a single compiler feature (the standard library rebuild, or "build-std") took 11 years and a major co...

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  Open Source Leadership with Vicky Brasseur

  May 28, 202644 minS0

  <p>You can't fire a volunteer. So how do you lead one? Vicky Brasseur — author, OSS strategist, and "open source minister without portfolio" — joins Jay Faulkner on the GROSS Out Podcast to discuss wielding influence without authority: ethical manipulation, director-ready business cases, and the succession planning most projects ignore until it's too late. Plus, Vicky's unflinching take on how the LLM boom is damaging open source — flooding maintainers with low-quality PRs, gutting mentorship, and burning resources without accountability. No fluff. Just the long game.</p> <p>G-Research is hiring in Dallas, TX and London, UK! Apply at https://gresearch.com/vacanc...

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  What Open Source Actually Requires with Jay Faulkner

  May 14, 202647 minS0

  <p>For our two-year anniversary, Tabatha DiDomenico turns the mic around and puts GROSS Out Podcast founder Jay Faulkner in the hot seat.</p> <p>Jay is a self-taught technologist who never wanted computers as a career — and ended up shaping infrastructure that runs the world as Ironic's project lead and a decade-long OpenStack contributor. In this conversation, he's honest about how that happened, what it actually looks like from the inside, and what he'd tell anyone trying to find their footing in open source.<br> In this episode:</p> Why people skills matter more than code in open source co...

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