The Open Stack | LinkedIn

Moving beyond the charity framework

A healthy ecosystem for supporting open source in the long term.

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

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…

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

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

Open Source Sustainability

The status quo in open source is broken. Corporations profit hugely from open source libraries, and give almost nothing back, which leans to burnout which is bad for everyone.

Let's fund the open social web

A pro-social approach to building better platforms

Freemium the Registry

Laurie Voss on an open source funding model

The Unsolvable Dilemma: Open Networks vs. Economic Sustainability - Nightflight

A conversation with a Fediverse core developer revealed the structural problem: donation models fail, and even specialized contributors can't make a living.…

A framework for thinking about Open Source Sustainability?

Can we apply Common Pool Resource work to open online projects?

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

SustainOSS was a one day unconference for open source sustainers. There were no keynotes, expo halls or talks — only discussions about how…

Open Systems Foundation

Building open infrastructure for a thriving planet.

Open source sustainability

While only twenty years ago open-source software was simply a curiosity that attracted the attention of a few academics and was not seriously considered in the software industry, open-source infrastructure today is ubiquitous, powering applications in virtually every domain.

Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn | P.C. Maffey

Ruminations on outsourcing our values