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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 ...

Sensibilities as Knowledge in Design Research

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progression.fyi

A collection of open source frameworks for helping designers and engineers to grow at work

The open authorial principle: supporting networks of authors in creating externalisable designs

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The Foundation for your Design System

A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize, extend, and build on. Start here then make it your own. Open Source. Open Code.

Open source is a restaurant

[[Chad Whitacre]] makes a great analogy around when/how software gets paid for, vs food. Open Source is a restaurant. At a restaurant, you eat your meal fir...

Open Source is Broken

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

DesignABetterBusiness.tools | Tool Overview

Search and download all of the tools from the book Design A Better Business

Fueling Open Source with Vibes & Money

Economists think Open Source is a business model. Devs know better, and fund it accordingly.

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open S…

An inside look at modern open source software developer…

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.

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.

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.

Aaron Boodman on Twitter / X

There is this tension in dev tooling right now: Lots of people want to self-host, and not depend on a service. Lots of people also want the vibes of open source - being part of an open development community, having the code, etc.But builders still need to make a living...— Aaron Boodman (@aboodman) January 23, 2024