Utopian Open Source Radio - Episode 10 - Full Show Recording

This is a fantastic show! Great guests, laughs and Open Source news. It's Episode 10 of the Utopian Open Source Radio! This show was aired live on Wednesday, August 8th thanks to the MSP Waves network. @jedigeiss rocked the airwaves as hot for another Open Source show. You can check out the full show at the end of this post.

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Sporting a stylish beard and lumberjack skills to match, @jedigeiss is back from his vacation and settled into his studio in Germany. Pink-Queen-Bee herself, @techslut takes a break from painting her new flat in Israel for share some laughs and Open Source news. We have two special guests this week and one surprise guest: @drakos, @heimindanger and @themarkymark.

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Show Timeline

0:00 - Introductions with @jedigeiss
0:12 - Open Source News with @techslut
0:42 - First Guests - @drakos with surprise guest @themarkymark
1:21 - Second Guest - @heimindanger

Open Source News

@techslut brings us many great new pieces for discussion among the audience.

• How blockchain will influence open source

• The Goodman One: A 3D Printed Open Source Camera

• Researchers Build Inexpensive Open Source Bioprinter for 3D Printing Branching, Hydrogel-Based Vascular Constructs

• Open Source Rover from NASA

• Ikea’s ‘open source’ Delaktig sofa is designed to be built and rebuilt again and again

• Uber launches open-source web framework Fusion.js

• How Google decides to open source its technology

• Xenko - an open-source C# game engine for realistic rendering and VR

• Free Resources for Open Source Certification and Training

• 6 ways programmers from underrepresented countries can get ahead

Utopian Content

@jedigeiss and @techslut tell us about exciting new Utopian content. This week's Utopian highlights can be found in the publication Utopian Weekly and Top of Utopian.

Special Guests

Our first guest this week is @drakos. He is Steem Witness #20 and doing a great deal to help streamline the witness process. He talks about techniques and challenges he has encountered as a witness. He also shared insight into some of the Open Source projects he has been working on:

• https://github.com/pcsg/pcsg-steem-blockchain-parser
• https://github.com/steemit/sbds

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Part way through @drakos' interview we were joined by @themarkymark, another Steem Witness. He joined the discussion on some of the challenges facing Witnesses these days. He joined us from his pool where he is working on some Open Source swimming strokes ;)

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Our second guest was the Project Owner of DTube, @heimindanger. There was much to talk about as DTube was just about to post a major update.

• https://steemit.com/dtube/@heimindanger/dtube-0-8-the-grand-upgrade-is-finally-here-dtv-dtalk-vip-system-etc

Another important piece of news @heimindanger shared was the Open Source status of DTube and the fact that DTube will no be working with Utopian.io to move forward with development. Very exciting!!

Raffle Time!

This week we had two giveaways provided by utopian.io: 2 great games from Humblebundle.com. The two winners of our raffle were @didi and @flugschwein. Congratulations!!!

Our wonderful Open Source raffle bot was created by our Utopian friend @jestemkioskiem. The raffle bot is Open Source can be found on this Github Repo - https://github.com/Jestemkioskiem/discord-raffle-bot

He recently did an update to our both and you can find the details in his Raffle Bot Update post.

The Show

You can watch all of Episode 10 right here:

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