The Web Platform Podcast

A discussion on Open Source technologies with open source contributors & interested developers. We tackle topics such as how to get started contributing, resources that developers might need, starting a project of your own, understanding licenses, monetization strategies, and the darker sides of open source.   Our panelists: Rob Simpson, Senior Engineer at AgileX & Host of The WaterCooler Web Dev Show Joe Barnes, Senior Architect at Mentor Graphics & Lift web framework contributor Matt Creager - Developer Advocate at Heroku Erik Isaksen - UX Engineer at3Pillar Global Christian Smith - Open source developer and startup enthusiast Nick Niemeir- JavaScript Agent Engineer atNew Relic   This episode is also available on our YouTube channel Links Open Source Jerks - http://readwrite.com/2014/12/15/open-source-avoid-the-jerks What is open source? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_development The Open Source Initiative - http://opensource.org/ Open Source is innova