







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


Embrace Open Source, For the Good of Nerdmanity | Fortune
More businesses are willing to use open source software for key projects.

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open S…
An inside look at modern open source software developer…

Why designing for open source can be so difficult
I design interfaces and ship the code myself. Portfolio and writing from Gilli Sigurdsson.
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.

The League of Moveable Type
The first open-source foundry. And your spot to learn how to use, make, and work with type.

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...
The open source community that embraces designers most, wins.
That’s my theory. Here’s my reasoning:

Stop learning frameworks
We are developers. We need to stay up to date with technology. Every day, we learn programming languages, frameworks, and libraries. The more modern tools we know — the better. Keeping up to date with Angular, React, Vue, Riot, Ember, Knockout is fun. But we are wasting our time.
Open-Source Contribution: The Ultimate Guide | Built In
How to get into open-source contribution according to these experts.

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,…

Open source and the software supply chain
Managing something as esoteric as resources for building software with a variety of contributions made by the open source community is more amorphic.
