Episode 20: The Keys to Open Source Sustainability with Gidi Morris

<center> <small>Sponsored By:</small> <a href="https://promo.linode.com/sustain/" target="_blank"><img src="https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/2/27729c65-f4a6-4496-8c86-820e7f13b285/_xSnMSeA.png" width="150px" heigh="47px"></a> </center> Panelists Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry Guest Gidi (Gideon) Morris (https://twitter.com/chekofif) Principal software engineer at Elastic Show Notes 00:44 (/20?t=44): The special guest for this episode of Sustain is Gidi (Gideon) Morris. Gidi is the principal software engineer at Elastic and has been in the industry for about two decades now. 03:08 (/20?t=188): He discusses his worries within not just the open source world, but the entire tech industry. Justin furthers the questions that Gidi raise about the open source world and the various psychological impacts it can have on the employees, due to his own experience. Gideon address the pressures and shifts relating to newcomers in the industry, specifically focusing on the world of open source. He raises the two issues he’s concerned about which is why people come into the industry and how do we support them? And are we creating an environment where they’re burning themselves out the way I did? 06:45 (/20?t=405) Eric begins the discussion by addressing the term Gidi raises which is, burnout. He relates his own experience where he felt this way about his work in the past year and brings up Gidi current employer, Elastic. Eric talks about his time when he was working at a startup called Mahalo and he used a product called Elastic search. 07:45 (/20?t=465) The question was posted in IRC and it was answered in 30 seconds according to Eric, which he exclaims was very surprising and that it represented that healthy environment Gidi brought up. Eric says he’s heard the work on Elk Stack is the environment striving to prevent the burnout that Gidi raises issues about. 08:18 (/20?t=498) Gidi then goes into detail about how companies can prevent the burnout of their employers and how they can learn from companies, li