This Thanksgiving, top your turkey with Cranberry sOSS to fund open source

It's ~Thanksgiving, so let's #thankthemaintainers together 🫂 First up, @magnushi.bsky.social, CEO of @sanity.io, with a special shout out to @citizenofnowhe.re, creator of @motion.dev Tell us what OSS project/maintainer you're thankful for, or show your support by buying some @CranberrysOSS.com 👀

buy sauce → support Open Source maintainers

This report on burnout in Open Source, written by the brilliant Miranda Heath, is the most comprehensive report on this topic ever published, as far as I know She advocates for a “community in which OSS developers are recognised as worthy of gratitude [and can] afford to live comfortably” 🔥

Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴

Nadia Asparouhova: “In conservation biology, a ‘keystone species’ is a species of animal with a disproportionately large effect on its environment relative to its abundance. Similarly, a “keystone contributor” might be a developer who contributes to multiple critical projects (...)”

From @sjvn.bsky.social: FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...

who is behind this account and how do we punish them for this pun?

“We became concerned, however, when we were presented with the terms and conditions we would be required to agree to if we accepted the grant: [affirming that] we ‘do not, and will not (...) operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology (...)’.”

Grotesque and sickening to come back home after a busy day of teaching and being a student to read that Tory policy would mean I could not remain here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

What a great post from @opensourcepledge.com member @zerodha.com, who are giving $1 million to Open Source projects. 🙏 “FOSS projects that the world depends on ought to receive financial backing as the norm, [and] collective societal recognition is owed to maintainers.” floss.fund/blog/second-...

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

not only is HTTP Toolkit a great piece of software, they also pay the maintainers they depend on 🥲❤️

one year of paying Open Source maintainers ✨❤️ consider mentioning the Open Source Pledge to your employer, even if you don't work in software

This only happens to you once

Punchcards weren't only used for code. These Department of Defense punchcards from 1966 have a microfilm window used for technical drawings — in this case, a rotary telephone switch, and a font!

This is an *excellent* report. I would highly recommend anybody interested -let alone involved- in open source to read it. 👏

If you haven't yet seen Chad's beautiful and moving video on the Open Source sustainability crisis, now's the best time to do so

I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊 mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...

We had a psychology researcher write a 37-page report on burnout in Open Source. Blog post soon, join our Slack to read the report now. join.slack.com/t/opensource...

We talked with GitHub co-founder @scottchacon.com about how he fell in love with Open Source, how AI is changing software development, and what he’s building next with @gitbutler.com

New tagline on the @opensourcepledge.com homepage. “Together, we pay the maintainers.” Join the club! 😁💃

how is this video so FREAKIN good

An operator uses the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator

Contracts signed! @nmckeever3.bsky.social Ruby Hornsby and @lukebrunning.bsky.social will be editing The Ethics of Online Dating for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

When software becomes deprecated, who makes sure it remains usable and secure? It could be you! HeroDevs is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer specialised in Python to join their Never-Ending Support team. You'd be keeping critical technologies running smoothly, forever. opensourcepledge.com/jobs

“Open Source components are foundational for the digital infrastructure we all rely on. But their contributions have not been accompanied by an equal focus on sustaining and investing in them.” Amazing work by @nckgts.bsky.social et al. 👏 Many of the same arguments also apply to joining the Pledge.

“None of the stuff that we do would be possible without the Open Source software we use. It wasn’t even moral indignation; it was a sense of confusion: why aren’t we paying [Open Source maintainers]?" @buttondown.com's Justin Duke on the @opensourcepledge.com blog ❤️

I started a public forum to discuss low-carbon computing, using cerca, the minimal forum software built by merveilles.town/@cblgh. Come say hi, let's see how this goes. ✨ forum.lowcarbon.software/thread/1/wel...

Our cat Biscuit had his grooming appt today and they sent us his report card but I think I'm just going to use it as my bio

“I didn’t expect to be moved by videos about open source info, but I was.” Awwwww, Joe. 🫶 🥹 Episode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-... Episode 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Dw...

Where should @opensourcepledge.com payments go in a company's chart of accounts? @chadwhitacre.com talks to an accountant to find out—the answer could change accounting forever! Side quests to NYC and @pycon.us, in episode 2 of Open Path ... 🍿 🥾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...

We have to support Open Source maintainers for our global software ecosystem to be sustainable. Could a community-governed endowment help? Join us and let's find out :)

Did you know that not paying the Open Source maintainers you depend on can end up costing your company money? @vlad.website explains why 👇

Here's my talk on why collective governance can prevent abusive power, and why distributed funding is necessary for collective governance. Thanks to @altctrl.org for inviting me, and to @fairpm.bsky.social for putting these ideas into practice. ❤️

Hi from #WCEU in Basel! I want to interview Open Source contributors/maintainers. If you are one, let me know. 😊

My @altctrl.org talk about collective governance in software is happening next week! I'll post a recording in case you can't make it to lovely Basel. ☺️ altctrl.org/schedule/

The Open Source software ecosystem is built on unpaid labour. This is why we're celebrating the @opensourcepledge.com member companies that #paythemaintainers to create a healthy Open Source ecosystem. Huge thanks to Nasdaq and everyone who made this possible. ❤

#MaintainerMonth starts today, and we're so excited to be part of it. The first item on the schedule is Chad's new show, Open Path. Have you watched it yet? 👀 maintainermonth.github.com/schedule/202...

LIVE NOW: @chadwhitacre.com's excellent new show, where he investigates whether Open Source can teach us lessons that help us work together and relate to each other in better ways ❤

So excited for @chadwhitacre.com's excellent new show, where he investigates whether Open Source can teach us lessons that help us work together and relate to each other in better ways ❤ Such important work from such a great guy. May 1st!

Is investing money—not just time—into Open Source good business? Yes, says Todd Bazakas, CFO at @sentry.io. Is a finance department the bottleneck keeping your company from joining the @opensourcepledge.com? Todd will help you make your case...

Will you be in Switzerland's beautiful city of Basel on June 6th for @altctrl.org? Vlad will be there, not only to talk about the Pledge, but also to start a conversation about collective governance of Open Source projects. We hear there will be delicious dumplings too ;)

I spent more than a year working on this SEP entry on ideology, and I actually think it is some of the best work I've ever done. There are three parts of it that I am especially happy with: plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideo...

It's always a delight to see Pirijan talk about how to make “software that gives you the time, space, and encouragement to do your best work”. Favourite quote: “struggling and making mistakes is an important part of developing skills and – increasingly important – finding your own voice”

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This is why and how companies should pay Open Source maintainers, and why the @opensourcepledge.com and thanks.dev are so important. Featuring fantastic feedback from FOSDEM friends.