Open source and social systems
Shifting the view of open source from the resulting code to the social systems that create the code is critical when driving towards long-term sustainability of technology as a whole.
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Bringing together a social model of open source
What can we do with a social model of open source? The opportunities are endless.
Identifying and sharing the status of open source projects
Identifying and sharing the status of open source projects.
Five ways to care for your open source contributors
How to encourage a thriving open source community.
Why your git email address matters
The email that you use with your open source commits isn’t just perfunctory—it can communicate intent and important context
How to empower your open source users and contributors
Breaking down the barriers to open source contribution.
Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency
There’s so much more to open source than what fits into a license.
A vision for a social model of open source
There’s so much more to open source than what fits into a license.
Conference: All Things Open 2018
All Things Open is a conference dedicated to open source tech and practices. Although ostensibly focused on tech in the enterprise, many of the talks applied to non-enterprise audiences as well. It’s a multi-multi-multi-track conference, with 4000+ attendees, held in Raleigh, NC. I hadn’t attended before, and since I live so close now, I decided to go! I’m all for the hallway track, but I was determined to make it to at least some sessions each day....