Amanda Casari: My name is Amanda Casari, my pronouns are she/her. Today is November 18. And I’m speaking with Elana Hashman, who I originally met, I think PyCon, maybe in like 2019, because we started nerding out together over open source and its complexities. We are recording this conversation for Open Source Stories. I am in an office in New England, which is lit much better now than it was a few weeks ago.

Amanda Casari: My name is Amanda Casari. My pronouns are she/her. Today is 23, October 2021. I’m speaking with Samson Goddy, who I met at PyCon two years ago now — I think it was 2019, in Cleveland, Ohio. I’m recording this conversation for Open Source Stories in what looks pretty dark, but it’s actually a beautiful sunny-ish day here in New England. My first memory of a computer — my uncle worked for IBM in the early 1980s.

Amanda Casari: Hello, my name is Amanda Casari. My pronouns are she/her. Today is October 21, 2021. I’m speaking with Julia Ferraioli and with Joe Beda. Julia, I know from our project, opensourcestories.org and then Joe, this is my first time meeting, I guess “in person” online. We are recording this conversation for Open Source Stories and I’m currently in, it looks like a cave but I promise it’s an office, in New England that just needs better lighting.

Julia Ferraioli: My name is Julia Ferraioli, and my pronouns are she/her. Today is October 5 2021. And I’m speaking with Russell Keith-Magee, who is a committed technologist, core developer on the Django project, and the founder of the beware project. I’m recording this conversation for open source stories in a rather Spartan office that I still haven’t decorated after moving in. And my first memory of a computer is actually playing Wheel of Fortune on MS DOS, if you can believe that.