Allison Randal on Participating in FLOSS Communities

In this episode of Hacking Culture, Matthew Tift talks with Allison Randal about her 30 years of professional programming experience, serving on multiple well-known open source and free software boards, planning conferences like OSCON and DebConf, and more. She offers a great deal of valuable advice both for people new to the FLOSS community and people who are looking to get more involved, as well as ideas about the relationship between the FSF and the OSI, great tips for conference organizers, and suggestions about how to transition from one free software community to the next.

This episode is released under the Creative Commons attribution share alike 4.0 International license. The theme music used in this episode comes from the Open Goldberg Variations, performed by Kimiko Ishizaka (http://opengoldbergvariations.org/). The musical interludes all come from ccMixter.org. "Test Drive" by Zapac (http://ccmixter.org/files/Zapac/26047), "Mauerspechte (the light) ditto ditto" by ASHWAN (http://ccmixter.org/files/ashwan/48192) under CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0). "La Madeline Au Truffe" by basematic featuring Jeris (VJ_Memes) (http://ccmixter.org/files/basematic/33580) under CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). "Black Rainbow" by Pitx (http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/19513) under Ceative Commons Sampling Plus (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/).