# 285: A Chicken Getting to the Other Side

- Show: [Embedded.fm](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm)
- Published: 2019-04-11
- Length: 1h 14m
- Episode: 285
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-04-11-285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side
- Listen: https://makingembeddedsystems.libsyn.com/285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side

## Summary

Carlos Maltzahn, adjunct professor at UC Santa Cruz and founder of the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS), discusses his initiative to help PhD students transition into open source software leadership. He details three incubator projects: Black Swan by Ivo Jimenez, which applies DevOps techniques to make scientific research reproducible; Skyhook by Jeff LeFevre, which uses programmable storage in Ceph to scale PostgreSQL; and Tracery by Kate Compton, a tool for casual creativity and bot building. Maltzahn explains how CROSS is funded by industry members to bridge the gap between academic research and sustainable open source communities.

## Chapters

- [0:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-04-11-285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side#t=6) Introduction and Background
- [3:14](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-04-11-285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side#t=194) Teaching Open Source and Linux Kernel Culture
- [12:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-04-11-285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side#t=723) The Origin and Mission of CROSS
- [19:12](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-04-11-285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side#t=1152) Black Swan: Applying DevOps to Science
- [41:21](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-04-11-285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side#t=2481) Defining Success in Open Source Projects
- [50:02](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-04-11-285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side#t=3002) Skyhook: Scaling PostgreSQL with Ceph
- [1:00:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-04-11-285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side#t=3603) Tracery and Casual Creativity
- [1:04:30](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-04-11-285-a-chicken-getting-to-the-other-side#t=3870) Industry Funding and Future Outlook

## Topics

- [Open-source hardware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/open-source-hardware)
- [Embedded firmware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/embedded-firmware)
- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)
- [Validation & product-market fit](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/validation-and-product-market-fit)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- CROSS (company)
- UC Santa Cruz (company)
- Linux (product)
- Ceph (product)
- PostgreSQL (product)
- Tracery (product)
- Black Swan (product)
- Skyhook (product)
- Ansible (tool)
- Git (tool)
- GitHub (tool)
- Apache Foundation (company)
- Red Hat (company)
- Oracle (company)
- SEF (product)
- OpenStack (product)
- BSD (product)
- Spark (product)
- Conda (tool)

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