We Gathered 100 Open Source Sustainers — Here’s What We Learned

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

The Missing Middle of Open Source

Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.

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

Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source

What does a sustainable open source project look like?

Over the past couple years, thanks in part to Nadia Eghbal’s Roads and Bridges report, the world is starting to see the need for long-term…

A Research Lab for Open Source ✸ Software Stewardship Lab

Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.

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,…

The Open Stack | LinkedIn

Notes from the field on sustainability, funding, and the systems we rely on

Software Stewardship Lab

A non-profit research lab dedicated to ensuring the stability of the Open Source ecosystem we all rely on.

Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer

A rare opportunity to make a real impact in a fast-paced, high-visibility role.

Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing

This post is heavily inspired by my experience over the last ten years participating in the open source community and eight years as a maintainer of Homebrew (which I’ve maintained longer than anyone else at this point).

SustainOSS: The Report

On June 19th, 2017, one hundred people gathered in San Francisco to create a cultural shift in how we think about the sustainability of…

Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing

This post is heavily inspired by my experience over the last ten years participating in the open source community and eight years as a maintainer of Homebrew (which I’ve maintained longer than anyone else at this point).

About | Open Source Ecology

The mission of Open Source Ecology (OSE) is to create the open source economy. An open source, libre economy is an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration. To get there, OSE is currently developing a set of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker.