A critique of modern software's over-reliance on dependencies, sparked by a FOSDEM talk on open source sustainability and maintainer burnout.
An open source funding experiment that displays ethical ads in the console to support maintainer work on packages like StandardJS.
Analysis reveals most popular open source projects receive donations below industry standards or poverty thresholds, questioning the fairness of the donation model.
Analyzes the limitations of tip jars and platforms like Patreon for sustainable open source funding, arguing they create a precarious gig economy for maintainers.
Inria establishes a foundation to secure funding and support for the scikit-learn open-source machine learning library, enabling sustainable growth and development.
A developer shares their journey to earning sustainable income from recurring donations for their open source projects, enabling full-time FOSS work.
Introduces `thanks`, an npm tool to help developers discover and donate to open source maintainers of their project dependencies.
A discussion on the challenges of sustainably funding open source software, inspired by a PyCon AU talk and the case of the Hypothesis library.
A review of the 2013 'beyond tellerrand' conference, highlighting talks on web sustainability, design, and development.
