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Dash Open Podcast: Episode 02 - Building Community and Mentorship around Hackdays

By Ashley Wolf, Open Source Program Manager, Verizon Media

The second installment of Dash Open is ready for you to tune in!

In this episode, Gil Yehuda, Sr. Director of Open Source at Verizon Media, interviews Dav Glass, Distinguished Architect of IaaS and Node.js at Verizon Media. Dav discusses how open source inspired him to start HackSI, a Hack Day for all ages, as well as robotics mentorship programs for the Southern Illinois engineering community.

Listen now on iTunes or SoundCloud.

Dash Open is your place for interesting conversations about open source and other technologies, from the open source program office at Verizon Media. Verizon Media is the home of many leading brands including Yahoo, Aol, Tumblr, TechCrunch, and many more.

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Dash Open 01: Gil Yehuda - Starting, Running, and Improving an Open Source Program Office

Introducing the Dash Open Podcast, sponsored by Yahoo Developer Network

By Ashley Wolf, Principal Technical Program Manager, Oath

Is open source the wave of the future, or has it seen its best days already? Which Big Data and AI trends should you be aware of and why? What is 5G and how will it impact the apps you enjoy using? You’ve got questions and we know smart people; together we’ll get answers. Introducing the Dash Open podcast, sponsored by the Yahoo Developer Network and produced by the Open Source team at Oath.

Dash Open will share interesting conversations about tech and the people who spend their day working in tech. We’ll look at the state of technology through the lens of open source; keeping you up-to-date on the trends we’re seeing across the internet. Why Dash Open? Because it’s like a command line argument reminding the command to be open. What can you expect from Dash Open? Interviews with interesting people, occasional witty banter, and a catchy theme song.

In the first episode, Rosalie Bartlett, Open Source community manager at Oath, interviews Gil Yehuda, Senior Director of Open Source at Oath. Tune in to hear one skeptic’s journey from resisting the open source movement to heading one of the more prolific Open Source Program Offices (OSPO). Gil highlights the benefits of open source to companies and provides actionable advice on how technology companies can start or improve their OSPO.

Give Dash Open a listen and tell us what topics you’d like to hear next.

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Ashley Wolf manages the Open Source Program at Oath/Verizon Media Group.