Open Source

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

2026-03-30Project Status
2026-03-24Accessibility Improvements
2025-11-21Looking for Work
2025-11-11End of Life Ideas
2025-09-12Searching for Closure
2025-09-05Mastodon and Webbly
2025-08-21Things I'm Looking For
2025-05-16Appearance on SustainOSS Podcast
2025-04-18A Dollar a Minute
2025-04-17When the Fire Comes
2025-04-12Research Threat Models
2025-03-12Resilience Advice
2025-01-06Making Decisions
2024-10-28What Would Be in a New AOSA?
2024-10-14Case Studies in Open X
2024-07-01Python Software Foundation Board Nomination
2024-06-02Why Are You Still Working?
2024-04-29A New Job at Plotly
2024-03-30Governance Revisited
2024-03-17Governing a Book
2024-03-08Our Process
2024-02-25Community Norms
2023-12-08Depressing Reading
2023-10-26BDFL Governance
2023-09-26Hiring an Engineering Manager
2023-09-13Adventures in Publishing
2023-08-20Ad Astra Simul
2023-06-19Eleven Tips for Organizational Change
2023-03-12Rethinking Design Examples
2023-01-18Another Standard Model
2023-01-17An Amsterdam Kind of Life
2022-10-29Throttling
2022-08-25Thoughts on the Hippocratic License
2022-06-20How to Write a Technical Book (Part 2)
2022-06-06Mitigation
2021-11-23Not What I Set Out to Do
2021-11-15Setting Up a New Project
2021-11-07What (a subset of) Done Looks Like
2021-09-07Managing Research Software Projects Workshop
2021-07-22Whatever Happened to TidyBlocks?
2021-04-20Scorecards
2021-03-30Joining a Project
2021-01-03Concept Maps
2020-11-02A Lightweight Process for Lesson Teams
2020-09-01What Every Community Needs
2020-08-31Governance
2020-08-08A Better Learning Platform
2020-07-28Announcing Glosario
2019-12-31Correlations
2019-12-23Gini Coefficients
2019-10-30First Do No Harm
2019-09-04TidyBlocks Webinar
2019-08-14It Feels Good to be Useful
2019-06-13Martha's Rules
2019-05-11Positive and Negative Openness
2019-04-20Leading Questions for Creating a Learning Commons
2019-01-10Leadership Training for Open Science
2018-10-31Credit and Respect
2018-04-30GSoC 2018
2016-08-02How Well Do Developers Understand Open Source Licenses?
2016-07-19Publishing Our Lessons, Version 2016.06
2016-07-12500 Lines
2016-02-17Building Software, Building Community: Lessons from the rOpenSci Project
2016-02-16A Counterpoint to Collaborative Lesson Design
2016-02-07Come a Long Way, Got a Long Way to Go
2016-01-21Our Introduction to Git Has Been Published
2015-07-23A Pair of Workshops
2015-01-17Orwell, Dickens, and How We'll Know We're Done
2015-01-05Cathedrals, Bazaars, and In Between
2014-11-18IP Communism
2014-04-22GSoC Projects for 2014
2014-02-25The Open Scoop Challenge
2013-10-17The State of Open Science
2013-09-02Introducing Citation Files
2013-08-30Open Access Button Hackathon is Sept 7-8
2013-08-25Why Open Access?
2013-08-23Two Cheers for GitHub
2013-02-03Features and Scope in Open Courseware
2012-10-22Getting Credit
2012-09-04Free As In Pretty Much Whatever You Want
2012-06-04What Skills Are Required to Implement Open Access?
2012-05-08Architecture of Open Source Applications: Volume 2
2011-10-22Research Without Walls
2011-08-25AOSA Volume 2 Roster
2011-08-22Code Coverage in Lernanta
2011-08-06Learning Lernanta: We're Live!
2011-07-13Learning Lernanta
2011-05-23The Architecture of Open Source Applications is Now Available
2011-05-06The Architecture of Open Source Applications
2010-12-27It's a Shame People Don't Get Credit
2010-08-03Open Source, Open Science in 1999
2010-07-20Closed Feels Weirder Every Day
2010-05-27I'm Not a Lawyer…
2010-05-20The Architecture of Open Source Applications
2010-04-26GSoC 2010
2010-04-12The Chilling Effect of the GPL
2010-04-12Professors *Can* Teach Open Source
2010-04-09PSF Membership
2010-02-28Panton Principles
2010-02-16Basie 0.6 Has Been Released
2010-02-01Two Steps Up, One Step Back
2009-12-11Open the Hatch
2009-08-30Congratulations to the MarkUs Team
2009-08-25Announcing Basie Version 0.5
2009-08-21City Data Projects
2009-08-06New Blog: Cross-Country Open Source Student Projects
2009-07-31Fall Projects Redux
2009-07-21Elsevier's Future, Version 0.1
2009-06-30Cross-Canada Undergrad Projects
2009-06-29Dru Lavigne on Women in Open Source
2009-06-15Anthropologists += Many, Please
2009-05-04RailsBridge
2009-05-01Something I Don't Know How to Fix
2009-04-28The Courage of His Convictions
2009-04-23What We Mean When We Say 'Community'
2009-04-09GSoC Stats: The Last 10% Is The Hardest
2009-03-19Keywords Speak Louder Than Words
2009-02-21Code Sprint Wrap-Up
2009-02-19Reading Week Code Sprint
2009-02-12Maybe Some People Can't Afford Free
2009-02-11Science in the Open
2009-01-23A New Kind of Big Science
2008-01-12What 'Community' Actually Means
2008-01-12And Speaking of Community…
2007-11-10Why It's Worthwhile
2007-09-05Openness and (the promise of) XML
2007-08-29The Sunlight Foundation and Hosted Lifebits
2007-07-31How Not to Collaborate
2007-06-18Nature Precedings
2007-03-26Google Summer of Code: Participating Organizations
2007-02-06DrProject 1.2 Now Available
2007-02-01Blackboard's Patent Pledge
2007-01-07DrProject 1.2 RC 1
2006-12-05YouTube for Data
2006-10-06DrProject 1.1 Release Candidate 1
2006-08-18When I Rule the World #173: Google's Summer of Code
2006-07-17DrProject 1.0 Final now available
2006-06-02Summer of Code on One Page
2006-04-12BIND Patents
2006-02-27What It Takes to Get Eclipse Out the Door