The Human Side of Code

In this episode, we hear from Megan Knight, Director of Software Communities at Arm. Megan shares her experiences with open source projects, particularly focusing on the Yocto project which helps build custom Linux distributions. She discusses the challenges of community management, maintaining contributor motivation, and the impact of policy changes on open source projects. The discussion also touches on the importance of corporate support in sustaining open source contributions.

 

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:52 The Yocto Project: Building Custom Linux Distributions

01:33 Managing Open Source Communities

04:20 Motivations and Challenges in Open Source Contributions

05:18 Conflict Resolution in Open Source Projects

06:59 Unexpected Use Cases in Open Source

10:03 Sustainability and Training in Open Source

18:07 The Future of Open Source in Automotive

19:18 Conclusion

 

Guest:

Megan Knight is the Director of Software Communities at Arm where she delightfully works with the upstream. She holds various positions on project boards including Yocto Project, UXL Foundation, Zephyr Project, and  OpenSSF. Prior to Arm, she led the IoT and Automotive open source engagement portfolio at Amazon Web Services and served as the Amazon representative on critical dependency open source project boards. She got her start in open source working at The Linux Foundation with the Linux Kernel and Linux Plumbers communities.