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What Part of "... for Life" Don't You Understand?

Open Source & Feelings 2015 talk by Jacob Kaplan-Moss about long-term commitment challenges.

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Avoiding Burnout, and other essentials of Open Source Self-Care

Kathleen Danielson's talk on practical strategies for maintaining mental health while contributing to open source projects.

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The Hard Parts of Open Source

Evan Czaplicki's talk about the difficult aspects of open source development and community management.

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Linus Torvalds addressing maintainer fatigue

Recent insights from Linus Torvalds on maintainer fatigue and the human side of open source.

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Nolan Lawson of PouchDB on what it feels like to be a maintainer

A podcast episode featuring Nolan Lawson discussing the emotional and practical realities of being an open source maintainer.

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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

Article about the incident where a developer corrupted widely-used libraries, highlighting the risks of dependency on single maintainers.

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The struggles of an open source maintainer

Personal account by antirez about the challenges of maintaining popular open source projects.

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Give Away Your Code, But Never Your Time

Essay about setting boundaries between code contribution and time commitment in open source.

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Why open source developers are burning out: No respect

Analysis of how lack of respect and recognition contributes to maintainer burnout in open source communities.

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On Being a Free Software Maintainer

Georges Stavracas' personal reflection on the responsibilities and challenges of maintaining free software projects.

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5 rules for avoiding burnout

Practical guidelines by Jen Krieger for maintaining sustainable involvement in open source projects.

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GitHub is really good at visualizing burnout

A tweet highlighting how GitHub's contribution graphs can inadvertently pressure maintainers and contributors.

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'Tina' is on the way, but the developers seem defeated and depressed

Beta News coverage of the Mint Linux project, highlighting the challenges of maintaining a popular Linux distribution.

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A sad day for Rust

Steve Klabnik's blog on the emotional and community fallout after the original maintainer of actix-web quit due to sustained criticism over unsafe code, marking a painful moment for Rust’s values of inclusivity and collaboration.

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Automattic is doing open source dirty

DHH's critique of how Automattic's business practices affect the open source ecosystem.

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The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained

Analysis of the conflict between WordPress and WP Engine, highlighting tensions in open source business models.

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I'm Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer

Filippo Valsorda's journey to becoming a full-time open source maintainer.

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Awesome Open Source Company

A curated list of companies that are doing open source right, providing examples of sustainable business models.

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Why and how we raised VC funding for an open-source project

ToolJet's experience raising venture capital funding for their open source project and the implications.

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Should I Open Source my Company?

Supabase's analysis of the decision to open source their company and the business considerations involved.

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Microsoft: 'We Love Open Source'

Discussion on open source: Microsoft: 'We Love Open Source'

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Enforcing the pyramid of Open Source

Discussion on open source: Enforcing the pyramid of Open Source

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How to build an Open Source Business in 2021 (Part 1)

Discussion on open source: How to build an Open Source Business in 2021 (Part 1)

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Open source has a funding problem

Discussion on open source: Open source has a funding problem

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Full-Time Open Source With Andrew Kelley

Discussion on open source: Full-Time Open Source With Andrew Kelley

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"Should You Open Source Your Startup?" by Ben Awad

Discussion on open source: "Should You Open Source Your Startup?" by Ben Awad

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The Luck of Open Source

Discussion on open source: The Luck of Open Source

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How to pay your rent with your open source project

Discussion on open source: How to pay your rent with your open source project

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Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself

Discussion on open source: Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself

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Death of an Open Source Business Model

Discussion on open source: Death of an Open Source Business Model

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Open source licensing and why we're changing Plausible to the AGPL license

Discussion on open source: Open source licensing and why we're changing Plausible to the AGPL license

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Xs:code launches subscription platform to monetize open-source projects

Discussion on open source: Xs:code launches subscription platform to monetize open-source projects

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Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source

Discussion on open source: Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source

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Re-Licensing Sentry

Discussion on open source: Re-Licensing Sentry

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Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses

Discussion on open source: Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses

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Defining "sustainable" for an open-source project

Discussion on open source: Defining "sustainable" for an open-source project

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FOSDEM 2019 and the challenge to finance Open Source

Discussion on open source: FOSDEM 2019 and the challenge to finance Open Source

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Sustaining FOSS projects by democratizing the sponsorship process

Discussion on open source: Sustaining FOSS projects by democratizing the sponsorship process

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Making money with licenses

Discussion on open source: Making money with licenses

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AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

Discussion on open source: AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

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FLOSS business models

Discussion on open source: FLOSS business models

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Open Source Confronts Its Midlife Crisis

Discussion on open source: Open Source Confronts Its Midlife Crisis

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An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons

Discussion on open source: An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons

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A EULA in FOSS clothing?

Discussion on open source: A EULA in FOSS clothing?

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Building a Business on Open Source

Discussion on open source: Building a Business on Open Source

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Open Source Business Models Redux

Discussion on open source: Open Source Business Models Redux

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Building an Open Source Service

Discussion on open source: Building an Open Source Service

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The Economics of Software

Discussion on open source: The Economics of Software

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The Simple Economics of Open Source

Discussion on open source: The Simple Economics of Open Source

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Sustainable Funding in Open Source

Comprehensive analysis of sustainable funding models for open source projects and their long-term viability.

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Open-Source Software Is in Crisis

IEEE's analysis of the current crisis in open source sustainability.

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The Open Source Sustainability Crisis

Chad Whitacre's detailed examination of the sustainability crisis in open source and potential solutions.

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The Silent Crisis in Open Source: When Maintainers Walk Away

Analysis of what happens when maintainers leave projects and the impact on the ecosystem.

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Maintaining FOSS Projects Sucks

Vaxry's candid account of the difficulties and frustrations of maintaining free and open source software projects.

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Does open source need its own Priority of Constituencies?

Tobie Langel's exploration of whether open source needs its own framework for balancing stakeholder interests.

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Scaling open source by creating potential

David Nolen's insights on scaling open source projects through creating potential for contributors.

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DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source

Domenic Denicola's critique of how Hacktoberfest's approach can harm open source projects and maintainers.

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Open source can thrive in a recession

Interview with Dries Buytaert about how open source can adapt and thrive during economic downturns.

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How's That Open Source Governance Working for You?

Nathan Schneider's analysis of governance models in open source and their effectiveness for sustainability.

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Open Source is Broken

Discussion on open source sustainability: Open Source is Broken

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Don't fund Software that doesn't exist

Discussion on open source sustainability: Don't fund Software that doesn't exist

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Theory: average bus factor = 1

Discussion on open source sustainability: Theory: average bus factor = 1

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The Internet Relies on People Working for Free

Discussion on open source sustainability: The Internet Relies on People Working for Free

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The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?

Discussion on open source sustainability: The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?

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Defining "sustainable" for an open-source project

Discussion on open source sustainability: Defining "sustainable" for an open-source project

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Let’s talk about open source sustainability

Discussion on open source sustainability: Let’s talk about open source sustainability

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How we lost our ability to mend

Discussion on open source sustainability: How we lost our ability to mend

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How to support open-source software and stay sane

Discussion on open source sustainability: How to support open-source software and stay sane

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Load-Bearing Internet People

Discussion on open source sustainability: Load-Bearing Internet People

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Software below the poverty line

Discussion on open source sustainability: Software below the poverty line

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Altruism Still Fuels the Web. Businesses Love to Exploit It

Discussion on open source sustainability: Altruism Still Fuels the Web. Businesses Love to Exploit It

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We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities

Discussion on open source sustainability: We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities

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Decentralized funding? An analysis of three programs

Discussion on open source sustainability: Decentralized funding? An analysis of three programs

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$1m to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift

Discussion on open source sustainability: $1m to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift

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Creating a New Source of Revenue for Open Source Software

Discussion on open source sustainability: Creating a New Source of Revenue for Open Source Software

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Heart of Clojure 2019 - Daniel Compton - Building Stable Foundations

Discussion on open source sustainability: Heart of Clojure 2019 - Daniel Compton - Building Stable Foundations

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The End of Gmane?

Discussion on open source sustainability: The End of Gmane?

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Making Maintainers: Engineering Education and the Ethics of Care

Academic paper by Russell and Vinsel on the role of maintenance in engineering education and the ethics of care.

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Exploiting Developer Infrastructure Is Ridiculously Easy

Jarrod Overson's analysis of the vulnerabilities in developer infrastructure and the risks they pose.

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Every day, we rely on digital infrastructure built by volunteers. What happens when it fails?

Analysis of the risks of depending on volunteer-built digital infrastructure and potential failure scenarios.

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Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure

Discussion on open source sustainability: Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure

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Indigenous wisdom as a model for software design and development

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Indigenous wisdom as a model for software design and development

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"Open Source" Does Not Mean "Includes Free Support"

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: "Open Source" Does Not Mean "Includes Free Support"

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Invasion of The Ethical Licenses

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Invasion of The Ethical Licenses

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Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab

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6 myths about β€œethical” open source licenses

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: 6 myths about β€œethical” open source licenses

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Why we need an Open Source Licence that considers the misuse of our code

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Why we need an Open Source Licence that considers the misuse of our code

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Major Open Source Project Revokes Access to Companies That Work with ICE

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Major Open Source Project Revokes Access to Companies That Work with ICE

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Why We Engage in FLOSS: Answers from Core Developers

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Why We Engage in FLOSS: Answers from Core Developers

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Of Money, Responsibility, and Pride

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Of Money, Responsibility, and Pride

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Why Software Projects need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1100+ Projects)

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Why Software Projects need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1100+ Projects)

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What Core Contributors Want

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: What Core Contributors Want

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Why don't you accept donations?

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Why don't you accept donations?

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Mastodon Issue #11129

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Mastodon Issue #11129

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Software Community Growth through "first-timers-only" issues

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Software Community Growth through "first-timers-only" issues

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Finding your tribe - choosing open source communities

Discussion on ethics and governance in open source: Finding your tribe - choosing open source communities

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Routes of Power. Energy and Modern America

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Routes of Power. Energy and Modern America

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The Grid, Biography of an American Technology

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: The Grid, Biography of an American Technology

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Roads to Power, Britain Invents the Infrastructure State

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Roads to Power, Britain Invents the Infrastructure State

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Fueling the Boom: Gasoline Taxes, Invisibility, and the Growth of the American Highway Infrastructure, 1919-1956

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Fueling the Boom: Gasoline Taxes, Invisibility, and the Growth of the American Highway Infrastructure, 1919-1956

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The Road to the Model T: Culture, Road Conditions, and Innovation at the Dawn of the American Motor Age

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: The Road to the Model T: Culture, Road Conditions, and Innovation at the Dawn of the American Motor Age

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Networks of (colonial) power: roads in French Central Africa after World War I

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Networks of (colonial) power: roads in French Central Africa after World War I

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The Changing Nature of Country Roads: Farmers, Reformers, and the Shifting Uses of Rural Space, 1880 – 1905

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: The Changing Nature of Country Roads: Farmers, Reformers, and the Shifting Uses of Rural Space, 1880 – 1905

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Preserving the unpreservable: docile and unruly objects at MoMA

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Preserving the unpreservable: docile and unruly objects at MoMA

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Difference and Dependence among Digital Workers: The Case of Amazon Mechanical Turk

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Difference and Dependence among Digital Workers: The Case of Amazon Mechanical Turk

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Nature as infrastructure: Making and managing the Panama Canal watershed

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Nature as infrastructure: Making and managing the Panama Canal watershed

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States of maintenance: Power, politics, and Egypts irrigation infrastructure

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: States of maintenance: Power, politics, and Egypts irrigation infrastructure

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Entangled agencies, material networks and repair in a building assemblage

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Entangled agencies, material networks and repair in a building assemblage

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Performativity, corporeality and the politics of ship disposal

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Performativity, corporeality and the politics of ship disposal

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Designing for repair?: Infrastructures and materialities of breakdown

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Designing for repair?: Infrastructures and materialities of breakdown

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Europe’s System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Europe’s System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks

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Electrifying Europe and Driving Europe

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Electrifying Europe and Driving Europe

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Tensions of Europe network

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Tensions of Europe network

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Infrastructuralism: The Pathology of Negative Externalities

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Infrastructuralism: The Pathology of Negative Externalities

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How fast can we transition to a low-carbon energy system

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: How fast can we transition to a low-carbon energy system

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Next Generation Infrastructures

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Next Generation Infrastructures

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Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet

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The Urk World: Hibernating Infrastructures and the Quest for Urban Mining

Scholarly discussion on infrastructure, energy, and maintenance: The Urk World: Hibernating Infrastructures and the Quest for Urban Mining

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Not Paying Open Source Maintainers Is Expensive

Discussion on the financial consequences of neglecting open source maintainer compensation.

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The Expense of Unprotected Free Software

Explores the real-world costs and risks of free software lacking commercial support.

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The cult of the free must die

A critique of open source idealism and the unsustainable culture of 'free'.

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The Principal Developer

A reflection on leadership, seniority, and responsibility in modern software development.

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Freedom Isn’t Free

A philosophical critique of open source freedom in the context of labor and value.

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The culture war at the heart of open source

An exploration of ideological tensions within the open source community.

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What comes after open source?

A speculative piece on future paradigms beyond open source software.

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The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming

A metaphor-rich narrative drawing parallels between art and programming.

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Human-Computer Insurrection (PDF)

A radical critique of human-computer interaction through an anarchist lens.

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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

Philosophical inquiry into manual work and its place in modern society.

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Right to Repair and the DMCA

Advocacy for user freedom to repair hardware against legal barriers.

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Maintainer Month (GitHub)

An initiative celebrating open source maintainers, possibly launched in 2025.

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Open Source Maintenance Fee

Proposed initiative for formalizing open source maintenance fees.

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Peerfunding (p2pfoundation.net)

Exploration of peer-based funding mechanisms for open projects.

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The OSI Celebrates Maintainer Month

Blog post marking Maintainer Month and its significance for OSI.

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Governing Rust (RacketCon)

Talk by Aaron Turon about Rust governance structures.

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No more free work from Marak - Pay Me or Fork This

GitHub issue in which Marak declares he will no longer contribute for free.

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Recap of the `funding` experiment

Reflections on a GitHub funding experiment by Feross.

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But You Said I Could

A post discussing expectations and misunderstandings in OSS licensing.

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Open Source is Not Enough

A critique of open source from a labor perspective by James Halliday.

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Maintainer vs. Community

Explores the tension between OSS maintainers and their communities.

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Why Doesn't Anyone Weep for Docker?

A critical look at Docker’s struggles and the broader lessons for open source businesses.

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Chat About Redis Labs (Podcast Transcript)

Discussion about Redis Labs' licensing decisions and open source economics.

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Supporting Browser Extension Developers

Exploration of sustainability challenges for browser extension developers.

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Next Steps for the Working Group (SustainOSS)

Planning thread for community-focused initiatives on OSS sustainability.

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OSS Grants Directory

A curated collection of funding sources for open source maintainers.

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Thread by Pradyun Gedam on OSS

Thoughts on OSS funding and long-term contribution fatigue.

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Thread by ceejbot on Maintainers

A Twitter thread on emotional labor and burnout in open source.

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Letter of Recommendation: Bug Fixes (NYT)

An ode to the joy and human connection behind fixing software bugs.

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Oss Relicensing and CockroachDB

Cockroach Labs’ decision to move away from open source licensing.

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The Rise of Few-Maintainer Projects

Explores how open source is often maintained by very few people.

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Go is Google's Language

Commentary on how Go reflects Google’s priorities in software.

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The Python Requests Episode

Postmortem on conflicts within the Python Requests project.

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Canonical Open Infrastructure Offering

Canonical aligns Ubuntu support and security under a commercial structure.

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Webpack Podcast (Changelog)

An in-depth podcast on Webpack and OSS maintainership.

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Hail the Maintainers (Podcast)

Conversation with Andrew Russell about valuing software maintenance.

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Keeping Open Source Open

AWS’s perspective on open distributions for Elasticsearch.

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The Dwarf Fortress Creators Weren’t In It for Money...

A look at the creators of Dwarf Fortress and their move toward monetization.

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Stepping Stone History of FOSS

Historical and ethical analysis of labor behind free and open source software.

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A Seasonal Report on Developer Trends (DigitalOcean)

Insights into developer behavior and sentiment about open source.

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