Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Scientific Community Manager at the Netherlands eScience center, and Shoaib Sufi, SSI Community Lead, joined Richard Littauer on the Sustain podcast to discuss the Workshop on Sustainable Software Sustainability (WoSSS). Their conversation explores the challenges and solutions surrounding software sustainability and highlights the connection between open source and research software and the importance of funding for such sustainable efforts. They also suggest that future workshops may be refined to address evolving community needs. The episode emphasises the need for knowledge exchange, networking, and community building while contemplating future pathways in this evolving field.
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Sustain is a podcast that brings together practitioners, sustainers, funders, researchers and maintainers of the open source ecosystem to discuss the health and sustainability of the open source community. They explore the ins and outs of what open source entails in the real world and strive to ensure the culture of open source continues, grows, and ultimately sustains itself.