The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...

Smaller open source developers are fighting back against tech giants like Amazon using their code in commercial services.

We've jokingly referred to the problem of disappearing maintainers as "bus factor" for about as far back as I can remember. In short, the idea is that it's bad for a project to have only one maintainer, because if they are (morbidly) hit by a bus, no one will keep working on the project.

What have seven security fixes in FileZilla got to do with 2014’s Heartbleed bug?

Smaller open source developers are fighting back against tech giants like Amazon using their code in commercial services.

Open Source Freelancer

One of the hardest things about trying to bridge two worlds--for instance, open source communities and academic institutions--is all the stuff you don't hear on a daily basis when you're working remotely. Sometimes it takes several rounds of garlic bread and pasta for people to begin articulating what's blocking them from teaching their students how to participate in FOSS communities. Sebastian Dziallas and I sat down last weekend at the 2010 Frontiers in Education conference with a group of professors from the Teaching Open Source community. "What are the biggest blockers that you're facing in doing this," we asked, "that people in the open source world just don't know about or understand?" Here are their answers.

Nature - Releasing lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.

As casual contributions—coordinated by a handful of maintainers—become ever more prevalent, how should we reset our expectations for OSS?

The University Libraries at Virginia Tech this summer became the first R1 research library to implement the Koha open source integrated library system (ILS), migrating more than 1.5 million holdings from its former ILS.

Is the increased use of commercial digital solutions proving to have unintended consequences for the museum sector?

In an attempt to explain the periodic fluctuations in American history, the historian Arthur Schlesinger – the Schlesinger the Harvard library is named after, not his son Arthur Schlesinger Jr that worked in Kennedy’s administration – posited that history runs in cycles. Specifically, his cyclical theory argued that American history swung back and forth between

Moodle, by far the world’s most widely adopted academic LMS, should choose to be transparent about numbers that are critical to the project’s sustainability.

Structure is part of the reason.

statement on event-stream compromise · GitHub

People cannot be equal participants in environments where they are subject to wildly unequal risk. People cannot be equal participants in environments where they are unequally threatened.