Open code, open design, open culture, and now open metrics.
Being Open by Design
“We were born as a radically open, radically participatory organization, unbound to traditional corporate structure. We played a role in…
The Meaning of Open
There are a lot of misconceptions about what open means, when it is the right strategy to apply, and the fundamental tradeoffs that go…
The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Finished Internet
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and as…
All That Glitters (Like Stars) Is Not Gold: Metrics that matter when commercializing open source
We looked at all 134 open source companies founded since 2015 to understand what metrics are the most telling, from seed stage to growth.
There is NO Open Source Business Model
Preface: It has been brought to my attention by friends and trusted advisors that a valid interpretation of my point below is that open…
A Framework of Open Practices
This is the second in a series of posts describing findings from industry research into best practices around open, collaborative methods…
The Open Organization Definition
Openness is becoming increasingly central to the ways groups and teams of all sizes are working together to achieve shared goals. And today, the most forward-thinking organizations—whatever their missions—are embracing openness as a necessary orientation toward success. They've seen that openness can lead to:
Open Source Metrics
Make informed decisions to help your open source project thrive by measuring and tracking its success.
The next wave in software is open adoption software | TechCrunch
There’s a big shift happening in how enterprises buy and deploy software. In the last few years, open technology -- software that is open to change and free to adopt -- has gone from the exception to the rule for most enterprises. We’ve seen the IT stack redrawn atop powerful open-source projects, with developers opting for an “open-first” approach to building solutions.
The golden era of being an open startup is gone
To me, the golden era of being an open startup is gone. Some founders and early adopters are shutting down their open pages and changing their transparency practices. I don’t think they are doing it just because things change and we need to cope.
Open Sourcing our Company Handbook: read on to know why
In this post we’re explaining the reasons we decided to open s...
2014: OpenBazaar, 2017: Still OpenBazaar
There are huge differences between running a company or business and running a free and open source software project. This story is about…
