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GitHub, in partnership with Tidelift, has set aside June 7-12, 2021, as Maintainer Week, a time for open source maintainers … Continue reading Open Source Maintainer Week Begins June 7 with Activities, Events, and Resources →

Open Collective has launched Funds, a new funding infrastructure for funneling contributions to open source projects. Any open source project … Continue reading Open Collective Launches Funds to Help Companies Streamline Donations to Multiple Open Source Projects →

Elastic, makers of the search and analytic engine Elasticsearch, have re-licensed its core product so that it is no longer open … Continue reading ElasticPress.io Service Considers Next Move after Elasticsearch Abandons Open Source Licensing →

In December, Mapbox shocked its open source contributor community with the news that Mapbox GL JS version 2.0 would be … Continue reading MapLibre Launches as Official Open Source Successor to Mapbox GL JS →

GitHub has published its annual Octoverse report for 2020. The code hosting platform currently serves more than 56 million developers … Continue reading GitHub’s 2020 State of the Octoverse Report Highlights: Developers are Working More Hours but Turning to Open Source Projects for Creative Outlets →

Mapbox GL JS, formerly an open source JavaScript library for interactive, customizable vector maps, has adopted a proprietary license in … Continue reading Mapbox GL JS Is No Longer Open Source →

ESLint, one of the most popular JavaScript linting utilities, quickly eclipsed more established early competitors, thanks to its open source … Continue reading ESLint Maintainers Share Challenges of Funding Open Source Utilities through Sponsorship →

The world of open source tooling has expanded to welcome JSHint, as the project’s maintainers have finally completed the necessary … Continue reading JSHint is Now Free Software after Updating License to MIT Expat →

OSI (Open Source Initiative) is hosting a new 24-hour, virtual conference called State of the Source Summit, September 9-10. The … Continue reading Open Source Initiative to Host Virtual State of the Source Summit, September 9-10 →

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 →