Episode 90: Logan Kilpatrick and the Julia community

Guest Logan Kilpatrick Panelists Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are very excited to have as our guest, Logan Kilpatrick, who is the Community Manager for the Julia Programming Language, a graduate student studying Software Engineering and Technology Law, and makes an exclusive announcement of another position he recently has taken on. Today, we are talking to Logan about the Julia Programming Language. We learn more about the role Major League Hacking played in the MLH Fellowship with Julia, why Logan is most interested in doing open source non-technical, his experience working at NASA, and the challenges he has with research papers. He also tells us about why the Julia community should not be using Slack, but maybe using Discord and Zulip in the future. Logan shares some parting advice about reaching out to people if there’s opportunities that are interesting to you. Find out more and download this episode now! [00:00:22] Logan gives us a brief introduction of who he is, what he does, and what this new position is he has recently taken on. [00:01:52] NumFocus is the topic and how this all came to be for Logan, and why Julia as a programming language is so unique and special. [00:05:48] Justin brings up ML Hacks and Logan explains more about this. [00:08:04] Logan fills us in on what his Julia day-to-day tasks that he works on and his non-technical tasks so he can influence the next non-technical open source contributor. [00:11:51] Find out if the Julia Programming Language is using any tools to monitor their community engagement. Justin talks about something he uses called Orbit, which is a framework for building high gravity communities. [00:16:00] Find out the experience Logan had working with NASA! [00:18:49] Logan has so much going on in his life and Justin wonders how he finds time to do anything. [00:20:10] We learn why Logan has a bunch of challenges with research papers. [00:22:47]