Podcasts

Podcasts about open source, with one episode to start with for each. Every show below published an episode in September or October 2026; we checked each feed on 8 October 2026.

Shows about the people who maintain open source#

• Sustain by SustainOSS · weekly · RSS – Conversations with practitioners, funders and maintainers about the health, culture and sustainability of the open source ecosystem beyond licenses. Start with: Courtney Miller on maintainer burnout and software abandonment (episode 289, June 2026).
• Coffee & Open Source by Isaac Levin · weekly · RSS – Interviews with notable folks in the OSS community, many from the .NET world. Start with: Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Jenkins (August 2025).
• The Changelog · weekly · RSS – Software development and open source news and interviews. Start with: Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23) (April 2021), Daniel Stenberg on what running a widely used project costs.

Shows about security and money#

• Open Source Security Podcast by Kurt Seifried and Josh Bressers · weekly · RSS – Vulnerabilities, supply chain attacks and the policy around them. Start with: Hobbyist Maintainers with Thomas DePierre (June 2025).
• Open Source Startup Podcast · roughly every two weeks · RSS – Founders and investors building companies on open source projects. Start with: E185: The challenges with monetizing open source (November 2025).

Shows about the tools#

• FLOSS Weekly by Hackaday, hosted by Jonathan Bennett · weekly · RSS – One free and open source project per episode, with the person behind it. The show moved to Hackaday after the old TWiT feed stopped in January 2024. Start with: Episode 808, Curl: Gotta Download ’em All (November 2024).

Talks#

Not podcasts, but worth the same hour:

• curl – a hobby project with a billion users by Daniel Stenberg (Google Tech Talk Meetup, August 2015) – how one maintainer grew a hobby project into software installed on billions of devices.
• The real costs of Open Source Sustainability (CERN, October 2019) – the case from Roads and Bridges, Nadia Eghbal’s report on how few people maintain the software the internet runs on.
• Working in public: Nadia Eghbal in conversation (LeadDev, November 2020) – what open source maintenance looks like when a few people serve many. Free LeadDev account required.
• How to Secure the Software Supply Chain by Feross Aboukhadijeh (May Contain Hackers, 2022) – malware found in npm packages, and what to check before you add a dependency.