Show Notes
This week John Terrill from Red Hat joins us to talk about branding in Open Source. Many projects don't have a unified communication strategy, but having one is important.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
Steve is in Vegas
Noah "getting deals"
04:37 Lossless Cut
Reached for Avidemux
Avoiding re-encoding
Learning a new program
Lossless Cut Webpage
Lossless Cut GitHub
08:30 OmniTools
Small docker image
Does everything in the web browser
OmniTools GitHub
12:43 NLSH
For people who want to learn the CLI
Translates natural language into CLI
Making things easy can backfire
NLSH GitHub
16:00 Xyops
Features:
Job scheduling
Workflow automation
Server monitoring
Alerting
Incident response
Self Hosted
Open Source
Xyops
18:18 News Wire
Squid 7.4 - github.com
Openttd 15.1 - openttd.org
Rust 1.93 - rust-lang.org
GNU C lwn.net
Extix - linux.exton.net
Liya Linux 2.5 - distrowatch.com
CachyOS 2026 - cachyos.org
GNU Guix 1.5 - quix.gnu.org
MxLinux 25.1 - mxlinux.org
Crypto Thieves in Snap Store - helpnetsecurity.com
Open Source Quantum Computer - uwaterloo.ca
AI Weather Models - kqed.org
Banks Prefer Open-Source - finainews.com
Rack-Scale AI - theasset.com
OIN 2.0 - yahoo.com
19:55 Python Built-in Web Server
Use python to host a web server
Used for file transfers
Use case
Steve's travel router
24:17 Proxy RCE - PSA
Basics of the problem
grahamhelton.com
26:30 Matter Camera
1920x1080 30fps
Synology App to turn a phone into a camera
linuxgizmos.com
30:06 MS Gives Keys to FBI
Microsoft confirms they gave the FBI BitLocker keys
~ 20 requests per year
Home users forced to upload keys
Jump through hoops to avoid uploading
Encryption is only as good as who holds the keys
Pragmatism
aardwolfsecurity.com
ArsTechnica
35:20 Linux Continuity
Continuity document merged into Kernel docs
theregister.com
36:40 John Terrill
PR in open source
Branding open source
One size fits all projects
Extracting technical knowledge
Technical accuracy
How to talk with journalists
Separating personal views from project views
Negative coverage
Messaging guidelines
Branding and marketing
Attracting media attention
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