Software Stewardship Lab

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.

Open Source Initiative

The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

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

Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS

The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

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.

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 Missing Middle of Open Source

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

Doing Data Science on the Shoulders of Giants: The Value of Open Source Software for the Data Science Community

Open source software is ubiquitous throughout data science, and enables the work of nearly every data scientist in some way or another. Open source projects, however, are disproportionately maintained by a small number of individuals, some of whom are institutionally supported, but many of whom do this maintenance on a purely volunteer basis. The health of the data science ecosystem depends on the support of open source projects, on an individual and institutional level.

Prosperous Software Movement | Open Source Observer

Bringing sustainable funding to public goods by revenue-sharing towards dependencies

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.

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 infrastructure deserves a business model

Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on it most.

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

An inside look at modern open source software developer…

Home - Open Source Collective

Open Source Collective is a non-profit fiscal host for open source projects. Get Transparent fundraising, money management, and legal representation