Benjamin Nickolls
Special guest
Ben is Executive Director of Open Source Collective, hosting around 3,000 open source communities on the Open Collective Platform. Ben is also the maintainer of Octobox.io a GitHub Notifications web client and browser extension, and an occasional boardgame designer.
Benjamin Nickolls has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Episode 119: Guest Episode - Sustain asks how Ecosyste.ms maps open source dependencies
18 September 2025 | 45 mins 44 secs
In this episode of CHAOSScast, we have a special episode from our friends at Sustain. Host Richard Littauer from Sustain is joined by guests Ben Nickolls and Andrew Nesbitt to discuss the ecosyste.ms project. They explore how ecosyste.ms collects and analyzes metadata from various open-source projects to create a comprehensive database that can help improve funding allocation. The discussion covers the importance of funding the most critical open-source projects, the existing gaps in funding, and the partnership between ecosyste.ms and Open Source Collective to create funding algorithms that support entire ecosystems. They also talk about the challenges of maintaining data, reaching out to project maintainers, and the broader implications for the open-source community. Hit the download button now!
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Episode 62: Maintaining Open Source Projects - a joint episode with the Sustain Podcast
12 August 2022 | 42 mins 7 secs
Today’s episode is a shared podcast between Sustain and CHAOSS. We have six panelists to talk about maintaining open source and we’ll also do a quick update from a previous episode and talk about what has changed and what maintaining open source looks like today. The panelists we have are Georg Link, Richard Littauer, Dawn Foster, Willem Jiang, Amanda Casari, and Ben Nickolls.