Open Source

Posts about free and open source software, licensing, open science, open access, and the communities that build in the open.

2026-03-24	Accessibility Improvements
2026-01-23	Updating Snailz
2025-11-11	End of Life Ideas
2025-09-05	Mastodon and Webbly
2025-04-18	A Dollar a Minute
2024-12-14	Snailz
2024-10-28	What Would Be in a New AOSA?
2024-07-01	Python Software Foundation Board Nomination
2024-03-17	Governing a Book
2024-02-25	Community Norms
2023-10-26	BDFL Governance
2022-08-25	Thoughts on the Hippocratic License
2021-07-22	Whatever Happened to TidyBlocks?
2021-04-20	Scorecards
2021-03-30	Joining a Project
2021-01-03	Concept Maps
2020-08-31	Governance
2019-10-30	First Do No Harm
2019-08-14	It Feels Good to be Useful
2019-05-11	Positive and Negative Openness
2018-08-12	The Real Challenge
2018-04-30	GSoC 2018
2016-08-02	How Well Do Developers Understand Open Source Licenses?
2016-02-16	A Counterpoint to Collaborative Lesson Design
2016-01-21	Our Introduction to Git Has Been Published
2015-11-20	The Morea Framework
2015-07-23	A Pair of Workshops
2015-01-17	Orwell, Dickens, and How We'll Know We're Done
2015-01-05	Cathedrals, Bazaars, and In Between
2014-11-18	IP Communism
2014-11-04	A 'Joel Test' for Grassroots Programming Groups
2014-04-22	GSoC Projects for 2014
2014-02-25	The Open Scoop Challenge
2013-10-17	The State of Open Science
2013-09-02	Introducing Citation Files
2013-08-30	Open Access Button Hackathon is Sept 7-8
2013-08-25	Why Open Access?
2013-08-23	Two Cheers for GitHub
2013-07-19	The Fourteenth Anniversary
2013-02-03	Features and Scope in Open Courseware
2012-10-22	Getting Credit
2012-09-04	Free As In Pretty Much Whatever You Want
2012-08-29	A Problem With Badges
2012-06-04	What Skills Are Required to Implement Open Access?
2012-04-17	In Search of Prior Arguments
2012-03-16	What I Learned From My P2PU Course
2012-03-10	An Observation
2012-01-17	Our First Challenges
2011-08-22	Code Coverage in Lernanta
2011-08-06	Learning Lernanta: We're Live!
2011-07-29	Team!
2011-07-13	Learning Lernanta
2011-06-10	Hermes FTW
2011-05-28	You Doesn't Exist
2010-12-27	It's a Shame People Don't Get Credit
2010-08-03	Open Source, Open Science in 1999
2010-07-20	Closed Feels Weirder Every Day
2010-05-27	I'm Not a Lawyer…
2010-05-20	The Architecture of Open Source Applications
2010-04-26	GSoC 2010
2010-04-12	The Chilling Effect of the GPL
2010-04-12	Professors Can Teach Open Source
2010-04-09	PSF Membership
2010-02-28	Panton Principles
2010-02-16	Basie 0.6 Has Been Released
2010-02-01	Two Steps Up, One Step Back
2009-12-11	Open the Hatch
2009-08-25	Announcing Basie Version 0.5
2009-08-21	City Data Projects
2009-08-06	New Blog: Cross-Country Open Source Student Projects
2009-07-31	Fall Projects Redux
2009-07-21	Elsevier's Future, Version 0.1
2009-06-30	Cross-Canada Undergrad Projects
2009-06-29	Dru Lavigne on Women in Open Source
2009-06-15	Anthropologists += Many, Please
2009-05-04	RailsBridge
2009-04-28	The Courage of His Convictions
2009-04-23	What We Mean When We Say 'Community'
2009-04-09	GSoC Stats: The Last 10% Is The Hardest
2009-03-19	Keywords Speak Louder Than Words
2009-02-21	Code Sprint Wrap-Up
2009-02-19	Reading Week Code Sprint
2009-02-12	Maybe Some People Can't Afford Free
2009-02-11	Science in the Open
2009-01-23	A New Kind of Big Science
2008-01-12	What 'Community' Actually Means
2008-01-12	And Speaking of Community…
2007-10-25	Today Was More Fun
2007-09-05	Openness and (the promise of) XML
2007-08-29	The Sunlight Foundation and Hosted Lifebits
2007-03-26	Google Summer of Code: Participating Organizations
2007-02-01	Blackboard's Patent Pledge
2006-08-18	When I Rule the World #173: Google's Summer of Code
2006-06-02	Summer of Code on One Page
2006-04-12	BIND Patents
2006-02-27	What It Takes to Get Eclipse Out the Door