Two unrelated things happened recently: 1. A few high profile open source maintainer burnouts<sup>1</sup> 2. I've been reading a lot of philosophy<sup>2</sup> I was first introduced to Stoicism by ...
Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together | Open Source Pledge
Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.
Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source
Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.
The Missing Middle of Open Source
Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.
Why Open Source Failed. (If you like this essay, you may be… | by Joh…
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Open Source Resistance
A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.
Open Source Burnout Claims Another Project
Yet another OSS maintainer quits because of burnout. To fix this, we need better mental health resources for maintainers.
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open S…
An inside look at modern open source software developer…
Open source and the software supply chain
Managing something as esoteric as resources for building software with a variety of contributions made by the open source community is more amorphic.
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
The open source movement runs on the heroic efforts of not enough people doing too much work. They need help.
Sustain
Sustain brings together practitioners, sustainers, funders, researchers and maintainers of the open source ecosystem. We have conversations about the health and sustainability of the open source community. We learn about the ins and outs of what ‘open source’ entails in the real world. Open source means so much more than a license; we're interested in talking about how to make sure that the culture of open source continues, grows, and ultimately, sustains itself. Newsletter
Open source sustainability | TechCrunch
Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion
You Can Help Solve Burnout in Open Source
A list of people and projects working on structural solutions to problems that cause burnout in open source software
I hate the term “open source”
It doesn’t accurately reflect how people are building today anymore.
We Gathered 100 Open Source Sustainers — Here’s What We Learned
SustainOSS was a one day unconference for open source sustainers. There were no keynotes, expo halls or talks — only discussions about how…
