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{{Infobox Podcast
| title = FLOSS Weekly
| image = [[Image:FLOSS Weekly logo.jpg]]
| host = [[Leo Laporte]], [[Randal L. Schwartz]], & [[Chris DiBona]]
| url = http://www.twit.tv/floss
| length = 60 minutes +/-
| audio format = [[mp3]]
| rss = http://leoville.tv/podcasts/floss.xml
| began = [[April 7]], [[2006]]
| genre = Interview
| language = [[English language|English]]
| network = [[TWiT.tv]]
}}


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'''FLOSS Weekly''' is a [[free software]] / [[open source]] ([[alternative terms for free software|FLOSS]]) themed [[podcast]] from the [[TWiT.tv (network)|TWiT Network]]. The show premiered on [[April 7]], [[2006]], and features prominent guests from the free software/open source community. It is hosted by [[Leo Laporte]]; his cohost for the first seventeen episodes was [[Chris DiBona]] and subsequently [[Randal Schwartz]].

Many influential people on the free and open source world have appeared on the show, including [[Miguel de Icaza]], [[Jimmy Wales]], [[Guido van Rossum]] and [[Ward Cunningham]].

== History ==

FLOSS Weekly was started by [[Leo Laporte]] who runs the [[TWiT.tv (network)|TWiT]] podcast network, and [[Chris DiBona]], the open source program manager at [[Google]]. [[FLOSS]] is an acronym for [[Free and open source software|Free/Libre Open Source Software]]. The show was intended to be a weekly interview with the biggest names and influences in open source software. Episode one of ''FLOSS Weekly'' appeared on [[April 7]], [[2006]].

Towards the end of [[2006]], episodes began to appear less frequently, dropping to a monthly basis. DiBona's newborn baby and commitments at Google were cited as reasons for the show's stagnation, and on the seventeenth episode, Laporte appealed for other co-hosts to share the burden.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.twit.tv/floss17| title = FLOSS Weekly Episode 17| accessdate = 2009-01-18| author = Leo Laporte| authorlink = Leo Laporte| date = 2007-3-24| work = FLOSS Weekly| publisher = TWiT.tv}}</ref> This was DiBona's final appearance on the show.

The show went on an unannounced three-month hiatus, re-appearing on [[July 21]], [[2007]], with a new co-host, [[Randal L. Schwartz|Randal Schwartz]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.twit.tv/floss18| title = FLOSS Weekly Episode 18| accessdate = 2009-01-18| author = Leo Laporte| authorlink = Leo Laporte| date = 2007-6-21| work = FLOSS Weekly| publisher = TWiT.tv}}</ref>, who had previously appeared on the show as a guest. Schwartz has since taken over organizing guests for the show, and has restored the show to a predominantly weekly schedule (with occasional gaps from scheduling conflicts or last minute cancellations).

== Format ==

Most episodes feature the primary developer or developers of a particular open source software project. The show is an open discussion, with Laporte and Schwartz asking questions about the nature of the project. Typically, the interviewers will ask the guests about the history of the project, and its development model (such as which [[programming language|language]] it is written in, which [[revision control|version control system]] is used, and what development environment the author uses). Some shows, such as the interviews with [[Jon Hall (programmer)|Jon "maddog" Hall]] and [[Simon Phipps]], are not specific to an open source project, and feature more general topics, such as the philosophy of free and open source software. Shows begin and end with a brief discussion between Laporte and Schwartz, before and after calling the guest. Often the guests are interviewed via [[Skype]], with Laporte's staff at [[TWiT.tv|TWiT]] being responsible for the audio recording and production. FLOSS Weekly has been supported by advertising and donations. In October 2006, FLOSS Weekly had 31,661 downloads of episode 14.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.twit.tv/2006/11/20/october_numbers| title = October Numbers| accessdate = 2007-07-12| author = Leo Laporte| authorlink = Leo Laporte| date = 2006-11-21| work = Leo Laporte's blog| publisher = TWiT.tv| quote = FLOSS Weekly 14 31,661}}</ref>

== Shows ==
Below is a table, consisting of all the shows that have been produced, up to date. Most of the potential guests for 2009's schedule have been identified, although the show is only scheduled two months out.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYAJMbVobYCTro_z4LGo3ZQ| title = FLOSS Weekly future schedule| accessdate = 2009-01-18| author = Randal L. Schwartz| authorlink = Randal L. Schwartz}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable collapsible" style="width:70%; margin: 0.5em auto; font-size:90%"
! colspan="4" | ''FLOSS Weekly'' episode list
|-
!URL
!Date
!Guest
!Project / Company
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss1 Episode 1]
|[[April 7]], [[2006]]
|[[Chris DiBona]]
|[[Google]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss2 Episode 2]
|[[April 14]], [[2006]]
|[[Ben Goodger]]
|[[Mozilla Firefox]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss3 Episode 3]
|[[April 22]], [[2006]]
|[[Rob Malda]] (CmdrTaco)
|[[Slashdot]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss4 Episode 4]
|[[May 3]], [[2006]]
|[[Brad Fitzpatrick]]<br/>[[chromatic (Perl developer)|chromatic]]
|[[LiveJournal]]<br/>[[Perl]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss5 Episode 5]
|[[May 12]], [[2006]]
|[[Miguel de Icaza]]
|[[GNOME]] / [[Mono (software)|Mono]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss6 Episode 6]
|[[May 19]], [[2006]]
|[[Larry Augustin]]
|[[VA Software]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss7 Episode 7]
|[[May 26]], [[2006]]
|[[Jimmy Wales]]
|[[Wikimedia Foundation]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss8 Episode 8]
|[[June 16]], [[2006]]
|[[Ryan Gordon]]
|[[Simple DirectMedia Layer]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss9 Episode 9]
|[[July 15]], [[2006]]
|[[Randal Schwartz]]
|[[Perl]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss10 Episode 10]
|[[July 22]], [[2006]]
|[[Jeff Bates (Slashdot)|Jeff Bates]]
|[[Slashdot]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss11 Episode 11]
|[[August 4]], [[2006]]
|[[Guido van Rossum]]
|[[Python (programming language)|Python]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss12 Episode 12]
|[[August 11]], [[2006]]
|[[Rasmus Lerdorf]]
|[[PHP]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss13 Episode 13]
|[[September 27]], [[2006]]
|[[Eben Moglen]]
|[[Free Software Foundation]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floww14 Episode 14]
|[[October 13]], [[2006]]
|[[Jeremy Allison]]
|[[Samba (software)|Samba]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss15 Episode 15]
|[[November 10]], [[2006]]
|[[Tarus Balog]]
|[[OpenNMS]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss16 Episode 16]
|[[February 21]], [[2007]]
|[[Jeff Waugh]]
|[[linux.conf.au]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss17 Episode 17]
|[[March 24]], [[2007]]
|[[Jon "maddog" Hall]]
|[[Linux International]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss18 Episode 18]
|[[July 21]], [[2007]]
|[[Josh Berkus]]
|[[PostgreSQL]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss19 Episode 19]
|[[September 1]], [[2007]]
|[[Junio Hamano]]
|[[git (software)|git]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss20 Episode 20]
|[[October 17]], [[2007]]
|[[Jay Shirley]]
|[[Catalyst (software)|Catalyst]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss21 Episode 21]
|[[November 23]], [[2007]]
|[[Avi Bryant]]
|[[Seaside (software)|Seaside Smalltalk Web Application Framework]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss22 Episode 22]
|[[December 22]], [[2007]]
|[[Fernanda Weiden]]
|[[Google]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss23 Episode 23]
|[[January 4]], [[2008]]
|[[Nate Koechley]]
|[[Yahoo! UI Library]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss24 Episode 24]
|[[February 8]], [[2008]]
|[[David Kirk Buck]]<br/>[[Chris Cason (programmer)|Chris Cason]]
|[[POV-Ray]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss25 Episode 25]
|[[February 29]], [[2008]]
|[[Campbell Barton]]<br/>[[Brecht van Lommel]]
|[[Blender (software)|Blender]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss26 Episode 26]
|[[March 7]], [[2008]]
|[[D. Richard Hipp]]
|[[SQLite]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss27 Episode 27]
|[[March 21]], [[2008]]
|[[Ward Cunningham]]
|[[WikiWikiWeb]], the first [[Wiki]]<br/>[[AboutUs.org]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss28 Episode 28]
|[[April 4]], [[2008]]
|[[Greg Stein]]
|[[WebDAV]]<br/>[[Google]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss29 Episode 29]
|[[May 23]], [[2008]]
|[[Dan Ingalls]]
|[[Smalltalk]]<br/>[[Squeak]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss30 Episode 30]
|[[June 28]], [[2008]]
|[[Philip Papadopoulos]]<br/>[[Greg Bruno]]
|[[Rocks Cluster Distribution]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss31 Episode 31]
|[[July 5]], [[2008]]
|[[Tom Barbalet]]
|[[Noble Ape]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss32 Episode 32]
|[[July 14]], [[2008]]
|[[John Roberts (software entrepreneur)|John Roberts]]
|[[SugarCRM]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss33 Episode 33]
|[[July 19]], [[2008]]
|[[Dalibor Topic]]<br/>[[Bruno Souza]]
|[[OpenJDK]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss34 Episode 34]
|[[July 26]], [[2008]]
|[[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]]
|[[Django (web framework)|Django]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss35 Episode 35]
|[[August 2]], [[2008]]
|[[Brian Aker]]
|[[Drizzle (database server)|Drizzle]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss36 Episode 36]
|[[August 20]], [[2008]]
|[[Jan Lehnardt]]
|[[CouchDB]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss37 Episode 37]
|[[August 23]], [[2008]]
|[[Evan Prodromou]]
|[[Identi.ca]]<br/>[[Laconica]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss38 Episode 38]
|[[August 30]], [[2008]]
|[[Mark Spencer]]
|[[Asterisk (PBX)|Asterisk]]<br/>[[Digium]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss39 Episode 39]
|[[September 5]], [[2008]]
|[[Simon Phipps]]
|[[Sun Microsystems]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://www.twit.tv/floss40 Episode 40]
|[[September 12]], [[2008]]
|[[Jeff Robbins]]
|[[Lullabot]]<br/>[[Drupal]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss41 Episode 41]
|[[September 19]], [[2008]]
|[[Shaun B. Walker]]
|[[DotNetNuke]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss42 Episode 42]
|[[September 26]], [[2008]]
|[[Roger Dannenberg]]
|[[Audacity]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss43 Episode 43]
|[[October 4]], [[2008]]
|[[Paul Louden]]
|[[Rockbox]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss44 Episode 44]
|[[October 10]], [[2008]]
|[[Gregory Casamento]]<br/>[[Riccardo Mottola]]
|[[GNUstep]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss45 Episode 45]
|[[October 18]], [[2008]]
|[[Aaron Seigo]]
|[[KDE]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss46 Episode 46]
|[[October 24]], [[2008]]
|[[Gareth Greenaway]]<br/>[[Shyam Kapadia]]
|[[SCALE]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss47 Episode 47]
|[[November 21]], [[2008]]
|[[George Conard]]<br/>[[Adam Monsen]]
|[[MicroFinance Open Source]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss48 Episode 48]
|[[November 29]], [[2008]]
|[[Joe Brockmeier]]
|[[openSUSE]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss49 Episode 49]
|[[December 7]], [[2008]]
|[[Peter Saint-Andre]]
|[[XMPP]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss50 Episode 50]
|[[January 3]], [[2009]]
|[[Jeff Squyres]]
|[[Open MPI]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss51 Episode 51]
|[[January 10]], [[2009]]
|[[Daniel Stenberg]]
|[[cURL]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss52 Episode 52]
|[[January 17]], [[2009]]
|[[Casey Reas]]<br/>[[Benjamin Fry|Ben Fry]]
|[[Processing (programming language)|Processing]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss53 Episode 53]
|[[January 24]], [[2009]]
|[[Chuck Syperski]]<br/>[[Jian Zhang]]
|[[Free Open-Source Ghost|FOG]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss54 Episode 54]
|[[January 30]], [[2009]]
|[[Quim Gil]]
|[[Maemo (operating system)|Maemo]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss55 Episode 55]
|[[February 7]], [[2009]]
|[[John Resig]]
|[[jQuery]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss56 Episode 56]
|[[February 14]], [[2009]]
|[[David Chisnall]]<br/>[[Quentin Mathé]]
|[[Étoilé]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss57 Episode 57]
|[[February 21]], [[2009]]
|[[Scott Davilla]]<br/>[[Jonathan Marshall ]]
|[[XBMC]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss58 Episode 58]
|[[February 28]], [[2009]]
|[[Aaron Newcomb]]<br/>[[David Brittlel ]]
|[[ZFS]]
|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss59 Episode 59]
|[[March 7]], [[2009]]
|[[Bill Kendrick]]<br/>[[David Bruce ]]
|[[TuxPaint]]

|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss60 Episode 60]
|[[March 14]], [[2009]]
|[[David P. Anderson]]
|[[BOINC]]

|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss61 Episode 61]
|[[March 21]], [[2009]]
|[[Massimo Banzi]]
|[[Arduino]]

|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss62 Episode 62]
|[[March 28]], [[2009]]
|[[Javier Uruen]]
|[[eBox]]

|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss63 Episode 63]
|[[April 4]], [[2009]]
|[[Agostino Russo]]
|[[Wubi_(installer)|Wubi]]

|- style="height:35px"
! [http://twit.tv/floss64 Episode 64]
|[[April 11]], [[2009]]
|[[Selena Deckelmann]]<br/>[[Audrey Eschright ]]
|[[The Open Source Bridge Conference]]

|}

==References==
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{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.twit.tv/floss Official website]
*[http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/FLOSS_Weekly Official wiki]
*[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYAJMbVobYCTro_z4LGo3ZQ FLOSS Weekly future schedule]
*[http://odtv.me/category/floss/ FLOSS Weekly videos]
*[http://podcast.insightcruises.com/ InsightCruises News-es], another podcast by Randal Schwartz
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