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In what began as a heated conversation on Twitter, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails creator and Basecamp … Continue reading Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson Discuss WordPress Market Share, Monopolies, and Power in Open Source Communities →

Chef co-founder and former CTO Adam Jacob gave a short presentation at O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference (OSCON) 2019 titled … Continue reading Adam Jacob Advocates for Building Healthy OSS Communities in “The War for the Soul of Open Source” →

Feross Aboukhadijeh, maintainer of StandardJS, has formally ended the funding experiment he started lasted week, which inserted ads in the … Continue reading StandardJS Ends Controversial Funding Experiment →

Feross Aboukhadijeh, maintainer of the StandardJS library, a JavaScript style guide, linter, and automatic code fixer, launched an experiment last … Continue reading StandardJS Pauses Experiment with Ads in the Terminal after Linode Pulls Sponsorship →

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Jonny Harris. Jonny describes how he discovered WordPress and … Continue reading WPWeekly Episode 356 – Gutenberg, Governance, and Contributing to WordPress with Jonny Harris →

GitHub has launched a new Sponsors tool that allows open source developer to receive financial support. The program is rolling … Continue reading New GitHub Sponsors Tool Draws Concerns from Open Source Community →

Quirk is a new GPL-licensed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) app for iOS and Android built in React Native/Expo. The app … Continue reading New GPL-licensed Quirk App Open Sources Cognitive Behavioral Therapy →

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) took a strong, unequivocal stance on its definition of open source this week, encouraging organizations … Continue reading Open Source Initiative Calls Organizations to Reaffirm Support for Its Definition of Open Source →

In a post titled “Open Source Has Won,” EllisLab founder Rick Ellis explained why ExpressionEngine is going open source after … Continue reading ExpressionEngine Goes Open Source after 16 Years →

DigitalOcean, along with GitHub and new partner Twilio, are sponsoring the 5th annual Hacktoberfest. The event was created to encourage … Continue reading 5th Annual Hacktoberfest Kicks Off Today, Updated Rules Require 5 Pull Requests to Earn a T-shirt →

Open Collective launched in 2017 as a new organization that helps groups raise funds and manage them transparently. The service … Continue reading New BackYourStack Tool Drives Financial Support for Open Source Projects →