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Well, this podcast for open-source contributors, future, past and present, by open-source contributors, is your one-stop shop to answering that question. We meet to discuss all things open-source; everything from the work itself to the communities we find ourselves in. Expect insight, ideas and idle chatter from four experienced developers: Lotte Pitcher, Carole Logan, Laura Weatherhead and Emma Burstow.
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Live from Spark 2026: AI, Play and the Human in the Loop
Live from the Umbraco Spark Innovation Conference in Bristol! Emma, Laura and Lotte were joined by Phil Whittaker, AI Staff Engineer at Umbraco HQ - someone who's been thinking and talking about AI…
Live from Umbraco in the City Manchester!
All four of us were together in-person - for the first time over two years - at Umbraco in the City, a community-organised event in Manchester. We talked about what contributions look like to a…
Community, Parenthood & Change
In this episode we get personal about what it means to be part of open source and tech communities while navigating major life changes. From returning to work after maternity leave and balancing "mum…
Live from Codegarden 2025!
Last week, we recorded a live episode at the Umbraco Codegarden conference in Odense, Denmark! Emma and Lotte took to the stage at the end of the first day. Carole and Laura couldn't make it this…
Live from DDD South West!
Yes we're back from a break, and delighted to have been the lunchtime podcast hosts at DDD South West in Bristol. We were joined by five fabulous panelists: speakers Dylan Beattie, Jacqui Read and…
Hackathons, Codecabin, a 5 year anniversary & special guest Erica Quessenberry
This episode we have a special guestUm, braco MVP and team Skrift co-founder, Erica Quessenberry!We talk all things hacktober (and preptember) ahead of the busiest month in open source.To support…
Live from Codegarden 2024!
Last week we recorded live at the Umbraco Codegarden conference in Denmark! We were given the honour of closing the show, so we took the opportunity to talk about our highlights of the event, and…
Toots, Tweets and Time Management
It's been 18 months since Elon Musk acquired Twitter and there's no denying he changed it irrevocably. We discuss how much we still miss the Twitter of old, and whether the Fediverse alternatives are…
The First Rule of the Microsoft MVP Summit
... is NOT "don't talk about the Microsoft MVP Summit". Quite the opposite, in fact, as you're actively encouraged to post on social media that you're there (#MVPSummit). You just can't share any of…
S4E6 Celebrating OSS contributions: 100 issues of Skrift
There are many ways to contribute to an open-source software community, such as attending a meetup, giving a talk at a conference or writing a blog post. In this episode we talk to Erica, Janae and…
S4E5 Live from Codegarden! with Special Guests!
Last week we recorded live at the Umbraco Codegarden conference in Denmark! Join us as we discuss what we love about the conference and meet our wonderful guests:Jan Skovgaard - an Umbraco community…
S4E4 In-person events: the ultimate OSS contribution?
Conferences, meetups, coding retreats … we discuss all sorts of in-person events and why they’re so important for a healthy community. Organising them is a lot of work, but perhaps this type of open…
S4E3 Open Source for Education with Felienne Hermans
In this episode Laura has a chat with Felienne Hermans, the creator and maintainer of Hedy, a text based programming language with a community of educators and contrbutors.…
S4E2 Spark your enthusiasm! Speaking and attending an in-person Umbraco innovation conference
In this episode we chat about the recent Umbraco Spark Innovation Conference that we all attended in person in Bristol. Plot-spoil: it was awesome! Carole, Laura and Lotte were on the speakers list…
S4E1 S4 Ep1: Authentic Boundaries
We take a look back at the best of 2022 (spoiler alert, July was THE month for us) and look forward to 2023. We discuss how we plan to spend our energy and how to do so without draining our reserves.…
S3E4 S3 Ep4: Culture - more than just a hoodie
Having a good workplace culture leads to happy, productive developers. But what makes it 'good'? It’s not the same for everyone. We talk about workplace culture and the different environments we’ve…
S3E3 S3 Ep3: The Codegarden Effect
We are back and chatting about our (hybrid) attendance at Umbraco Codegarden conference. Join us as we interview some remote conference attendees on how the event was for them.Let us know what you…
S3E2 S3 Ep2: Breaking barriers with Maria Naggaga
We’re very excited to be joined by Maria Naggaga from Microsoft for this episode. Maria has been breaking down barriers both personally, being a woman of colour in tech, and professionally with…
S3E1 S3 Ep1: Charmingly Rusty
We are back!... and little rusty at this podcasting thing!In this episode we catch up with what we have been up to in open source since last time, discuss Umbraco 9 and .Net 6 releases, real life…
S2 Ep15: The domain name graveyard of hopes and dreams
This week we chat about finishing things - and in some cases struggling to finish them! Tune in to hear us chat about shipping minimum viable products, using to-do lists to get that "finished a task"…
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