Elena Lape - Holopin, Contributor Recognition, The Need for Human Connection, and AI

In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, Schalk Neethling talks with Elena Lape, founder of Holopin, about community, shared values, and having each other's best interests in mind. They discuss the importance of contributor recognition, the Holopin open-source program, its tech stack, and adopting open standards. Other topics include Elena’s work while at GitHub, HTTPie, Paralus, and OpenCost. The conversation concludes with a discussion about our concerns over AI's impact on junior developers, people in developing countries, mental health, and the need for human connection.

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Links

• Holopin

• Elena Lape on the Web

• Elena Lape on GitHub

• Elena Lape on LinkedIn

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project template documentation - On GitHub

• Holopin GitHub Bot

• Holopin Discord Bot

• Allo-Allo - Welcome GitHub Action

• Incentivizing contributors to move up the ladder

• Joomla

• Open Badges

• PlanetScale

• Transloadit

• Chef AI - How to build an AI app

• HTTPie

• HTTPie 101

• Zack Koppert - Open sourcing GitHub’s OSPO

• GitHub Student Developer Pack

• Mozilla Responsible AI Challenge

• Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

• Stability AI

Recorded with Riverside and produced by Mechanical Ink.