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What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…

What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…

Doing Data Science on the Shoulders of Giants: The Value of Open Source Software for the Data Science Community · Issue 2.2, Spring 2020

Open source software is ubiquitous throughout data science, and enables the work of nearly every data scientist in some way or another. Open source projects, however, are disproportionately maintained by a small number of individuals, some of whom are institutionally supported, but many of whom do this maintenance on a purely volunteer basis. The health of the data science ecosystem depends on the support of open source projects, on an individual and institutional level.

Doing Data Science on the Shoulders of Giants: The Value of Open Source Software for the Data Science Community

Open source software is ubiquitous throughout data science, and enables the work of nearly every data scientist in some way or another. Open source projects, however, are disproportionately maintained by a small number of individuals, some of whom are institutionally supported, but many of whom do this maintenance on a purely volunteer basis. The health of the data science ecosystem depends on the support of open source projects, on an individual and institutional level.

Twelve tips for growing communities around your open source project | Ben Balter

Publishing code isn't enough. Twelve practical tips to attract users, welcome contributors, and grow a healthy open source community.

How does SourceHut's free software consultancy work?

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

Platform Cooperativism as a Critique of Open-Source

I am a pretty assiduous digital commoner, for what it’s worth. I almost exclusively use free/libre/open-source software (hereafter FLOSS), evangelistically so. I try to practice open journali…

Why open source: 25 reasons to embrace it | Ben Balter

Open source isn't a fad. Here are twenty-five economic, moral, and personal reasons your organization should embrace it.

The Future of Open Source | datagubbe.se

Coraline Ada Ehmke: The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source

In the twenty years since the term “open source” was coined by Christine Peterson, our community has grown astronomically, all the while learning from its successes and failures. A lot has changed for open source developers in the past two decades. But the political and technological landscape has also changed.

WRKSHP.tools | Tool Overview

Search over 30 different innovation tools and download them for free

Open Source

These GitHub repositories contain open-source software developed by the Observatory on Social Media for various projects

Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory

Widespread Internet use offers unprecedented opportunities to study human behavior at scale, yet researchers face significant ethical and technical barriers when attempting to collect data for academic studies.

eLife Pathways home page

Moving beyond legacy publishing requires interoperable open-source infrastructure. With Wellcome’s support, we are evolving eLife’s technology to anchor a collaborative network, partnering with the open science community to reshape the communication and assessment of global research.

swyx on Twitter / X

icymi, openai also open sourced how their deep research prompt rewriter works + the full prompts todayyou can now build your own deep research agent - with full o3/o4-mini deep research quality - in 20LOCif you're a fan of Claude Research they ALSO dropped how to add… pic.twitter.com/5moxXjzqTj— swyx (@swyx) June 27, 2025