Veteran tech journalist Steven Vaughan-Nichols covers FOSSDA (Free and Open Source Stories Digital Archive Foundation), a nonprofit documenting the experiences of open-source pioneers through oral histories and video interviews.

FOSSDA collaborates with TheirStory's platform to remotely record, transcribe, and index oral history interviews, while partnering with Permanent.org to keep these accounts permanently accessible. The piece highlights the project's first batch of interviews, featuring figures like Bruce Perens and Audacity founder Roger Dannenberg.