It's been almost two years since I made Orca open source, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what we've done so far, and introduce some changes in the project's direction.
Open Research Community Accelerator
Open Research Community Accelerator®, subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. ORCA is an operating project of Multiplier, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID 91-2166435).
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…
Creating and growing healthy community open source projects [PLoP 2020]
Abstract: This article presents a succinct and minimal handbook of best practices of how to create and grow community open source projects. We start with the assumption that the handbook’s user has…
I hate the term “open source”
It doesn’t accurately reflect how people are building today anymore.
Twelve tips for growing communities around your open source project | Ben Balter
Publishing code isn't enough. Twelve practical tips to attract users, welcome contributors, and grow a healthy open source community.
Coraline Ada Ehmke: The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source
In the twenty years since the term “open source” was coined by Christine Peterson, our community has grown astronomically, all the while learning from its successes and failures. A lot has changed for open source developers in the past two decades. But the political and technological landscape has also changed.
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
Making your open source project newcomer-friendly
One reason I really like open source is that it offers a lot of great opportunities for newish programmers to get some hands-on experience with real world problems. There’s only so much one can learn …
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.
The Future of Open Source | datagubbe.se
A plan for open source software maintainers
It seems to me that this is a case where problems are in fact solutions to other problems. To wit:
Nibble Stew: The Nine Phases of an Open Source Project Maintainer
There is more to running an open source project than writing code. In fact most of all work has to do with something else. This places addit...
Introducing Patchwork-26
I'd like to see some coordination in the open source community to respond to this. The outcome could shape significant funding and strategic moves. Off the top of my head, there's a few things that I'd like to see in a new European open source strategy. 🧵
Maximilian Henning
The @ec.europa.eu will soon present “a combination of funding and policy measures” to support European open source projects in becoming commercially viable alternatives to proprietary US tech. Read my article at @euractiv.com: euractiv.com/news/commission-wants-to-comm…
