Programming Throwdown, Episode 53, Open Source Communities.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody.

So today we have a really cool interview.

We have Michael Rogers from the Node.js Foundation.

And Michael, why don't you start by introducing yourself?

Hey, I'm Michael Rogers.

I do Node stuff.

That's me.

So what's your role in the foundation? So my role is, my title is community manager, but I do quite a bit.

So part of it is community work still and working with, we have a new governance structure

and a TSC and a really big

flourishing project that I'm sure that I'll get more into in a little bit.

So I work with that on the community side and just kind of try to make sure that any roadblocks

are pushed out of the way and that, you know, people are being connected when they need to be

connected.

And then I also actually do a lot of the internal foundation stuff. So we have a lot of

resources from the Linux Foundation around marketing and PR and events that we use. So coordinating

a lot of that, putting together, you know, board meetings and working with the board of directors

and all that kind of stuff too. Cool, cool. So what is it almost like a real company?

I say that sarcastically

well it's it's

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