Nadia Eghbal
The rise of few-maintainer projects
As casual contributions—coordinated by a handful of maintainers—become ever more prevalent, how should we reset our expectations for OSS?
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Open Source
This issue explores the inner workings and wide-reaching impact of open-source software—and the communities that build it.
Lucy Wyman
Community service
In the care and feeding of open-source projects, communication is key.
Glenn Fleishman
A license to share
How permissive content licenses, inspired by OSS, helped shape today’s digital commons.
Henry Zhu
(Open) source of anxiety
A maintainer of Babel navigates the boundaries of open source and self.
Sophie Alpert
The benefits (and costs) of corporate open source
When—and why—should a business release an open-source project?Jaime Green
Interview: Mitchell Baker
A conversation with the chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation about her transition from corporate law to tech leadership, the power of a written document, and a more humane internet.Owen Williams
A call for change
To better protect our digital infrastructure and to ensure long-term utility, open source needs a more sustainable business model.Juan Pablo Buriticá
A punk rock guide to conference organizing
DIY lessons from planning JSConf Colombia for anyone, anywhere who wants to plan accessible, sustainable developer events.
Chris Stokel-Walker
Voting for transparency
Can open-source voting technology help restore faith in elections? A look at VotingWorks, a nonprofit developing what it hopes will be “a publicly owned operating system for democracy.”
James Turnbull
More productive Git
Tips for acquiring Git super powers.
Devon Zuegel
The city guide to open source
What can cities teach open source about governance, funding, and managing limited resources?
Nick Montfort
won’t you
A computational poem.
Poornima Apte
The lingua franca of LaTeX
How Donald Knuth’s 1978 typesetting program became one of the oldest still-active open-source projects and revolutionized technical publishing along the way.Rikki Endsley
Ask an expert: How do you build a professional network?
Advice on contributing to OSS projects, navigating social media, meeting up locally and at conferences, and more.Increment Staff
Open source at scale
Technical leaders at Microsoft, Kickstarter, DigitalOcean, and Red Hat answer questions about when and why to opt for OSS, how open source has influenced their organizations, and its future role in corporations.Safia Abdalla
Beyond maintenance
A consideration of how human-oriented investments are vital to a project’s long-term health.
