







binding a philosophy to oss projects
smol machines — ship and run software with isolation by default
Run any workload in a fast, hardware-isolated Linux VM. The same SDK and the same .smolmachine artifact run identically:
Nominate OSS for Funding — Open Source Endowment
Nominate critical, underfunded open source projects for OSE grant funding through our open, community-developed model.

Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source software…
Something Big Happened in 1998
It is reasonable to accept that OSI founded Open Source with the Open Source Definition.

Open Source is Broken
The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...

A Practical Framework for Applying Ostrom’s Principles to Data Commons Governance
How do stakeholders govern themselves? What drives their endeavour? How do they make decisions? How do they make sure conflict does not tear them apart? The answers to these questions will look different for every data commons. Learn more in this week's data governance blog.


A Revised “Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of the Commons
A Revised “Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of the Commons” The traditional economic definition of “the commons” are those resources...

OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound
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OSM-binary/osmpbf/osmformat.proto at master · openstreetmap/OSM-binary
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The just-announced Open Source Endowment is now on Bluesky, and we're open to your ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects 🙏
Open Source Endowment
We heard the Bluesky community cares about Open Source, so we showed up 👋 Our endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers is already at $729k, and we're developing a model for distributing our first funding round. Have ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects? We're listening.
Please welcome @railway.com as the newest member of @opensourcepledge.com 🎉 They rely on OSS projects like @vite.dev, @tanstack.com, @drizzle.team and @tailwindcss.com, and they're doing their part to sustain the ecosystem, from which we all benefit. Read all about it:
Railway Runs Open Source, Now We're Funding It
blog.railway.comcode and tests aren't the moat. they never were. no need for agents to copy a project. forking was always an option. the moat of an oss project is its community, its governance, and its ecosystem connections. agents will never be able to replicate that. don't hide. let's build in the open, together