Telling Fair Stories with a Full Perspective on Open Source with Brian Douglas

The Business of Open Source

Brian Douglas, CEO of OpenSauced, joins me to discuss insights - how they’ve been provided in the past, how OpenSauced is different, and how he hopes to contribute to the future of open source.

In this episode, Brian and I explore the origins and future of OpenSauced, including his hopes for how providing different insights can help contributors find worthy projects and maintainers find worthy contributors to hire. We also discuss the importance of community and telling fairer and fuller stories of open source projects. Listen to hear Brian’s unique perspective on the business of open source.

Highlights:

• Brian introduces himself and OpenSauced (0:45)
• Brian describes his ideal OpenSauced users (4:42)
• How OpenSauced began and why Brian chose and stuck with the pizza theme (8:29)
• Why OpenSauced focuses on the contributor first (15:01)
• Using data to tell the full story of an open source project (18:44)
• Brian describes his target company size and use case (20:42)
• The value of the open source community (22:38)
• What companies get wrong when working with open source (24:42)

Links:

Brian

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianldouglas
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bdougieYO
• Company: https://opensauced.pizza/
• The Secret Sauce Podcast
  • Audio: https://thesecretsauce.transistor.fm/
  • YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHyZ0Wz_A44VR4BXl_JOWSecQeWcZ-kS3