Podcast Special - An interview with Ivan, the developer behind Niri

About this episode

An interview with Ivan, the developer of Niri, discussing open source software development and technology.

We had a great pleasure to meet Ivan, the main developer of Niri. Niri is a tilling window manager for Wayland, where the user interface is not new, but Ivan is constantly expanding the concept with great interesting possibilities and functions. With the effect that the fan community is getting bigger and bigger. In the interview together with our guest Christian, we were able to ask few questions to emphasize the aspect of what it means to be an independent open source software developer in addition to the technology discussions. The first idea was that this interview should be part of our next regular episode. But Christoph also had the idea of separating it to reach English-speaking listeners as well, rather than just our German listeners. And this is the reason for this special. We recorded our interview outside on the terrace in beautiful weather. However, a bad weather front kept us very busy until the end. The effect was that we were accompanied by twittering of birds and strong rain and wind noises. But that didn't affect the interview in any way. Gordon would say we had atmosphere 😀. So be part of what we think is an interesting interview and have fun to listening…

People in this episode

Hosts: Farid, Gordon, Christoph

Guests: Christian, Ivan

Topics covered

• open source
• window manager
• Wayland
• software development
• interview
• technology

Keywords

• Niri
• Wayland
• open source
• window manager
• interview
• software development
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Niri, Wayland, Sway, Hyprland

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