Gina Häußge

Germany

Passionate code monkey. Geek. Gamer. Bouldering apprentice. Creator & maintainer of OctoPrint. GitHub Star. PSF Fellow. In love with software development since early childhood which led to a diploma in Computer Science. Several years of work in the industry before turning working on Open Source full time in 2014, crowd funded by the community since 2016.

Community Contributions

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SustainOSS #251, "Gina Häußge of OctoPrint on Crowd-funding OSS"

As a guest on the SustainOSS podcast I had the chance to talk about OctoPrint's project governance, combating burn-out, keeping the community healthy and the constant struggle between a hate of self-promotion a need of funding.

Video/Podcast / 10-11-2024

On the importance of time off

A short but in my humble opinion extremely important blog post on why it is important to take some time off to rest, especially for Open Source maintainers, and especially in our current hustle culture.

Blogpost / 07-25-2024

C-RadaR Juni 2024 – Datenzwerge, clubsAREculture, Verstehbahnhof, EMF Camp

My buddy romses and I were invited to speak on a local live radio show about our "Datenzwerg" environmental sensor project. The show went over the airwaves live on June 13th at UKW 103.4 MHz in the southern parts of Hessen, Germany, and via an internet live stream. It was my first time on radio 😊

Video/Podcast / 06-22-2024

Ship It! #107, “3d printed infrastructure”

I was invited to the Ship It! podcast to talk about OctoPrint's release workflow and infrastructure, and what happens to turn the code in the GitHub repository into a full fledged, automatically tested and OTA updateable release.

Video/Podcast / 06-07-2024

CardFoldr

After getting into print'n'play games, I created a tool to make gutterfolded card PDFs from grid based card PDFs. The tool utilizes vanilla JS and modern browser technologies to do all of that directly in the browser.

Open source project / 05-09-2024

OctoPrint 1.10.0

OctoPrint's 1.10.0 release, bringing exciting new features like a fancy new printer error dialog that should better help users to self-diagnose issues with their printers, achievements, performance improvements, security & bug fixes and other improvements.

Open source project / 04-24-2024

FLOSS Weekly #778, “People are amazing at breaking things”

I saw down with the kind people of FLOSS Weekly to talk about OctoPrint's history, running an Open Source Project of this size for this long, the challenges, the achievements, and also about the mental health aspects of Open Source maintenance.

Video/Podcast / 04-10-2024

"Behind the scenes of creating OctoPrint"

I was invited by Tailscale to share how I'm using the Tailscale VPN to do tests of real hardware via GitHub Actions.

Video/Podcast / 02-23-2024

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