Thunderbird Podcast #1: Origin Stories

March 21, 2023 Jason Evangelho 11 responses

Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird podcast, which we’re affectionately calling the ThunderCast! It’s an inside look at the making of Thunderbird, alongside community-driven conversations with our friends in the open-source world. We can’t wait for you to listen!

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Where To Get The Podcast

Highlights from Episode 1

What to expect on future episodes of ThunderCast
We’re hiring!
Is Thunderbird still part of Mozilla?
Alex starts a band, Ryan is building a keyboard, Jason’s island adventures
4 years of “invisible work” to prepare for Supernova
Thunderbird on Android… and iOS

Transcript

We include a full transcript of the episode inside the podcast metadata, which should be supported by your podcast app. If it’s not, here’s a direct link to the Episode 1 transcript.

Chapter Markers

The ThunderCast includes chapters for podcast players that support the feature. If yours does not, here are some timestamps to help you navigate the episode:

(00:00) – ThunderCast: What To Expect
(02:07) – Meet Ryan
(08:55) – Meet Alex
(12:24) – Loving Your Work
(18:07) – Meet Jason
(21:06) – Geeking Out
(31:37) – Mozilla + Thunderbird: A history lesson
(41:22) – Supernova: Setting The Stage
(56:28) – “Email is not broken”
(01:05:23) – K-9 Mail → Thunderbird Android
(01:16:36) – Closing comments

Tags: K-9 Mail Linux open source Podcast Thunderbird Thunderbird Android Thunderbird iOS ThunderCast

11 responses

Thomas_U wrote on March 21, 2023 at 20:54

Please make Thundercast available on Apple Podcasts. Thanks!

Jason Evangelho wrote on March 22, 2023 at 06:52

DONE! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thundercast/id1678308795

João Matos wrote on March 22, 2023 at 16:19

Hello,

Great 1st episode. Keep them coming.

I would like to suggest having an online voting system for the roadmap features (recommend that having an account should be mandatory to reduce bots).
I know it isn’t podcast related but please pass the suggestion to the right person.

Best regards,

João Matos

Luna bittin Jernberg wrote on March 22, 2023 at 18:07

Saw it drop on Facebook
And listening now, feels like listening to old friends talking about Thunderbird as i meet two of you three at FOSDEM 2020 and 2023 and some really great information about things, added it to Pocketcasts on Android too, did not find it when searching but the direct link worked

TC68 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 04:25

I was hoping for ThunderCats.

Not really – I am enjoying the outward facing aspects of the Thunderbird team in all the formats. Keep up the good work.

The product changes are great so far (contacts and calendars) and I am really looking forward to the update later this year.

TC68 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 04:30

Also, just a shoutout to AntennaPod as a podcast app which is open source.

http://www.antennapod.org

db wrote on March 23, 2023 at 05:49

Can you add this feed to https://planet.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ ?

Jason Evangelho wrote on June 1, 2023 at 10:13

It seems to be listed there.

Hela Odingirl wrote on March 24, 2023 at 14:17

Hi #TBFamily, really loved this interview like the style of being to the point and straight.
[Jason, this isn’t to spread hate about the app/development, I just want to criticize it’s problems constructively. I don’t mind if you block this comment, I just want to say my opinions to the team.]
Regarding Android version, I highly recommend to not release this application branded as “Thunderbird” without redesigning the Settings menu and Search bar.
I see tags to be a really game changing feature but yeah not implemeting something would get less hate compared to implementing something incomplete.
The search bar looks like on of the old material bar and I would recommend it to make look like a modern Material you/3 bar.
Settings menu is really confusing just like the desktop experience.
Please add an advanced section after categorising the settings menu properly where you could put all settings that most people don’t use.
It’s frightening for me to even enter the present menu.
Please organise it in a better way. I could share some apps who do it the right way if you want.

George wrote on March 27, 2023 at 10:38

Huge congrats! Really enjoying this!

Jim wrote on March 31, 2023 at 01:25

Excellent podcast! Keep this going! Loved discovering the quality of approach going into this project and the history. In your next episode, could you talk about the target user base and implications for your roadmap holistically across Thunderbird and K9? Without a calendar on mobile (even a standalone ThunderbirdK9 one) does the proposition stack up? Calendar is so strategic for people with custom domains. Maybe you could discuss ideas like ‘conditional’ donations to vote for and steer the roadmap – half your donation is unconditional, but you commit to double that if a certain feature is prioritised – now that would be interesting!!! Will be great to have diversity on the mic (female?) representation as you keep going – looking forward to the next one. J

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