Flint & Silicon interview

The Flint & Silicon podcast features interviews with grant managers, policymakers, technologists and others about how we can all work together to improve society. In the latest episode, Amy Parker, Chief Funding Officer, speaks about fundraising, both from the perspective of traditional nonprofits and within the open source ecosystem.

Watch the episode here, or explore other ways to listen.

For further information about some of the things Amy mentions in the interview, check out these links:

• The first-ever OpenSSL Conference will be held on 7-9 October 2025 in Prague, Czech Republic. More information will be coming to the Conference website soon!
• We’re headed to ICMC and PQ Cyber Day in April! Tomáš Mráz, Public Support & Security Manager and Senior Software Engineer, is on the program committee. He and Amy will be attending in-person, along with several staff from the OpenSSL Corporation, and you can find us at the OpenSSL Corporation booth during all four days. Tomas Vavra will be speaking on PQC in OpenSSL and Anton Arapov will be speaking on the OpenSSL Roadmap.
• Amy gave a talk at FOSDEM the day after the Flint & Silicon interview and went into more depth about fundraising best practices. That presentation and video recording are available online.

If you’d like to participate in Flint & Silicon, or suggest a guest, use the contact link here.