The Digital Infrastructure Fund Podcast
Discussions with grantees of the Digital Infrastructure Fund
About the show
The Digital Infrastructure Fund Podcast features grantees of the Digital Infrastructure Fund, funded by the Ford Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Omidyar Network, and the Mozilla Open Source Support Program. This fund is being facilitated by Open Collective Foundation.
From healthcare to climate change, from government procurement to legal frameworks, all 13 projects in the 2021 program reflect how important open source technologies have become to our modern world. This podcast also features some alumni from previous cohorts.
Episodes
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Episode 8: Rayya El Zein on the Digital Infrastructure Incubator
April 18th, 2022 | 30 mins 18 secs
Rayya is here to explain the digital incubator she’s been building and how it works, introduce five of the teams they’ve been working with this year, and we’ll learn more about the six projects.
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Episode 7: Caroline Sinders on the Importance of Diverse Commmunities
November 29th, 2021 | 37 mins 40 secs
Caroline goes in depth about her grant: “What can the history of JavaScript teach us about techniques to mitigate harassment (a barrier to diversity and a threat to the sustainability of digital infrastructure projects) in open source communities?”
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Episode 6: Mathieu O’Neil and Stefano Zacchiroli: The coproduction of open source software by volunteers and big tech firms
November 22nd, 2021 | 35 mins 59 secs
Mathieu and Stefano go in depth about the grant they received on understanding the open source ecosystem, and how volunteers and big tech have a difficult relationship with open source.
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Episode 5: Jana Gallus and the Power of Public: Recognition and Reputation as Drivers of Open Source Success.
November 15th, 2021 | 36 mins 18 secs
Jana Gallus joins us to talk about her work on recognition and reputation as drivers of open source success, and work similar to what she did with her DIF grant.
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Episode 4: Elisa Lindinger on Implicit Development Environments (IDE)
November 9th, 2021 | 24 mins 20 secs
Elisa Lindinger shares her grant on IDEs - Implicit Development Environments - and her current work at SUPERRR Lab.
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Episode 3: Argyri Panezi and Jessica Feldman: What makes an open source project “critical digital infrastructure?”
October 25th, 2021 | 35 mins 7 secs
Argyri Panezi and Jessica Feldman join us to talk about their grant (with Lucy Bernholz), titled: What makes an open source project “critical digital infrastructure?”
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Episode 2: Kaylea Champion and Mako Hill on Detecting Risk in Digital Infrastructure
October 18th, 2021 | 31 mins 18 secs
Kaylea Champion and Benjamin Mako Hill from the University of Washington in Seattle join us to talk about detecting risk, under- and over-production in open source.
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Episode 1: The Digital Infrastructure Incubator, with Danielle Robinson and Rayya El Zein
September 7th, 2021 | 28 mins 45 secs
Danielle Robinson and Rayya El Zein from Code for Science and Society join us to talk about their grant, the Digital Infrastructure Incubator.