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Date: "2024-07-18"
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# Podcast recording — 2024-07-18
Recorded episode with Yusuf Osman. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: building developer communities in emerging tech ecosystems — lessons from growing a thriving open-source community from zero to 10,000 contributors
- Yusuf shared the playbook he used to build community around an open-source infrastructure project, including the counterintuitive decision to slow down feature development in order to invest in documentation and contributor experience
- His background spans both community management and core engineering, which meant he could address the tension between community requests and architectural integrity with genuine nuance
- Very warm and thoughtful session; Yusuf's communication style is calm and measured, which contrasts nicely with our more high-energy episodes — good variety for the feed
- Standout quote: "Open source is not free. Someone is always paying — either with money, time, or burnout. The sustainable projects are the ones that are honest about which currency they are using"
- Clean audio; Yusuf recorded from a co-working space but managed to find a quiet room with good acoustics

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Yusuf
- [ ] Draft show notes with links to his open-source project and contributor guidelines
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
- [ ] Create social media clips — the open-source sustainability angle is timely
