Commentary: In a series of conversations, women explain how online trolls are demotivating them from talking tech.

MIT and Harvard have damaged their reputations and need to take action to repair them.

tl;dr: its community management sucked and it took too much money from VCs and accomplished too little with it

"I'm fresh out of ideas with regards to handling toxicity in the Perl community."

WordPress development isn't what it used to be... but that isn't a bad thing. Here is what has changed and what you can expect getting started with WordPress.

Our ongoing series on 501(c)(3) denials continues with not one but two rulings addressing a frequent topic of discussion:  open source software development as a tax-exempt activity.    (A denial letter also came out for a rodeo that wants to be a 501(c)(3), but as a San Francisco-based attorney, I t

Sales shill tries to sell open-source developer his own open-source code.

I put things here so they are on the internet

Developers of the popular open source network Freenode are quitting en masse and accusing Andrew Lee, the Crown Prince of Korea, of a “hostile takeover” of the organization.

Embarrassed overreaction or righteous indignation? An academic research group has provoked the Linux crew to ban their whole university!

Advocates of open source inclusiveness felt sidelined this March when the Free Software Foundation (FSF) reelected Richard Stallman to its board of directors. And this week, the FSF doubled down on this controversial decision in a statement on the election of Stallman. This move echoes a lot of the issues that the open source community…

FSF delenda est.

Major corporate supporters abandon the FSF, while board members and leaders resign from the organization, as the outrage over Richard M. Stallman being allowed back on the board continues to grow.

A number of people associated with free and open source software have written an open letter calling for Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, to be removed from his position...

Open-source software is at the core of… well, practically everything online. But while much of it is diligently maintained in some ways, in others it doesn’t receive the kind of scrutiny that something so foundational ought to. To that end, $1.3 million worth of grants were announced today, split among 13 projects looking to ensure […]

Author(s): Geiger, R Stuart; Howard, Dorothy; Irani, Lilly | Abstract: Free and/or open-source software (or F/OSS) projects now play a major and dominant role in society, constituting critical digital infrastructure relied upon by companies, academics, non-profits, activists, and more. As F/OSS has become larger and more established, we investigate the labor of maintaining and sustaining those projects at various scales. We report findings from an interview-based study with contributors and maintainers working in a wide range of F/OSS projects. Maintainers of F/OSS projects do not just maintain software code in a more traditional software engineering understanding of the term: fixing bugs, patching security vulnerabilities, and updating dependencies. F/OSS maintainers also perform complex and often-invisible interpersonal and organizational work to keep their projects operating as active communities of users and contributors. We particularly focus on how this labor of maintaining and sustaining changes as projects and their software grow and scale across many dimensions. In understanding F/OSS to be as much about maintaining a communal project as it is maintaining software code, we discuss broadly applicable considerations for peer production communities and other socio-technical systems more broadly.

Using contract as an ethics leverage point.

A survey of nearly 1,200 FOSS contributors found security to be low on developers' list of priorities.