Knowing when to leave your open source project.
Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source
The Missing Middle of Open Source
Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.
It’s time to rethink Open Source
Why developers give away valuable work for free — and what can be done to take that money back.
Open Source Resistance
A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open S…
An inside look at modern open source software developer…
Open sourcing our server
We take the final step in our open source journey. Our clients had always been open source. Today, we are also releasing the source code for our servers.
Open Source Software and Corporate Influence — Andrew Lilley Brinker
Open source software projects are frequently enmeshed with the interests of corporations. We should update mental models of who works on open source accordingly, and build or modify power structures to be more resilient to corporate capture.
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.
Anthony Fu
It’s not a secret that open-source projects are now a critical part of almost every software project. While most open-source projects are maintained by volunteers, the sustainability of these projects becomes a big concern. The recent xz/liblzma vulnerability accident is a great example that shows the importance of open-source projects and how severe the problem could be.
OpenBB is shutting down and going open source
And I’m sharing the entire OpenBB roadmap I had with you soon
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.
How open source projects need to adapt to the AI coding era | We Love Open Source • All Things Open
A new Carnegie Mellon study shows AI coding tools boost velocity by 281% — then leave codebases harder to work with. Here's what open source communities need to do before the sugar rush wears off.
Open Source Explained — Open Indie
Musings on the concept of ‘open source’, in the broadest possible definition of the term. Also an invitation to become a participant in ...
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.
Open Source is Broken
The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...
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,…
