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

Please help Miranda out with her research! 🙇‍♂️

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

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...

Let's gooooooooo! 🇮🇳 💃 🙌

@chadwhitacre.com and @vlad.website joined in supporting #WordPress #OpenSource contributors with Vlad's involvement at #WCEU this year—huge thanks to them for their advocacy.

I absolutely love this series on Syntax. The information and the storytelling are so captivating and interesting, and I didn’t really know much about open source before watching these.

how is this video so FREAKIN good

Honestly did not intend to time this with Rails World. 😅

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

Maintainers can't eat code. That's why companies SHOULD (per RFC 2119) join @opensourcepledge.com and #paythemaintainers and not just contribute upstream (which they SHOULD also keep doing!).

My life is so weird.

Short Taxonomy of Open Source Developers. 🧵 № 1: EMPLOYEE. Writes most of civilization's Open Source software. Made peace with the trade-offs.

“It wasn’t even moral indignation; it was a sense of confusion: why aren’t we paying someone to help them work full time on this? Isn’t that just an obviously reasonable thing to do?” @jmduke.com re: @opensourcepledge.com Full story: opensourcepledge.com/blog/story-o...

Going on sabbatical through August 6, off social media hopefully. 🙏

As part of our open source pledge, we financially support our critical dependencies and important projects / initiatives for the web ecosystem.

Love seeing the @opensourcepledge.com badge in the footer on @posit.co. ☺️ Why is it not on your company's website? 🤔

A few months ago, we hosted our first-ever Bring Your Kid to Work Day at Sentry 🫶 It was one of the cutest days in the office this year, full of tiny visitors, curiosity, and creativity Here's Sebastian to tell you more about himself 👇

Open Path is a show about @chadwhitacre.com’s quest to discover the true meaning of the gift of #OpenSource ✨ openpath.quest

this is like one of these videos that randomly land in your yt recommendations and afterwards you're like holy shit nice

For Open Path № 2, I talked to @simonwillison.net, @nedbat.com, and five other maintainers to understand the Open Source burnout crisis from their point of view. The dream? Financial support w/o hoops! Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...

“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 :)

We’re on the hunt for a cracked YouTube Video editor — know someone?! Details here → forms.gle/sVr1YFvBCijx...

We're launching an endowment for Open Source. It's called the Open Source Endowment. 😊 endowment.dev @vlad.website built the website. 🙇‍♂️

Best part of these UN meetings so far was when Sigmund Freund was introduced as …

You know, just UN'ing ...

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

Rainy week in NYC. I'm here for UN Open Source week, also planning to pitch @opensourcepledge.com at a startup pitch event on Wednesday. We'll see what other shenanigans emerge. 😁 💃

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. ❤️

Great to see this from zerodha.com! 👏 I look forward to strengthening our relationship at the fossunited.org conference in Bangalore in September. 👍

Work on Ep. 2 proceeding apace, drive filling up quickly. openpath.quest

5 years of #MaintainerMonth 🎉 From Times Square to tiny commits, folks everywhere are showing up for open source maintainers. Huge thanks to @feynudibranch.bsky.social + all our amazing partners 💖 Highlights via @thenewstack.io : thenewstack.io/how-the-worl...

Thanks @thenewstack.io for spotlighting #maintainermonth efforts, and @github.com for organizing in the first place! It's been a great May so far, and it's only four more days until Just Pay Them June 😏

Back in 2003, I was so excited to install the first version of WordPress on my machine. I was hooked. Today, I’m even more excited to release php-node, the @platformatic native module that allows you to run PHP in @nodejs.org. Including WordPress. You're reading this right. youtu.be/q_lNQRjRN0s

Putting some pieces together for Ep. 2 of Open Path, aiming for mid-June(?). openpath.quest

First through-stone, big milestone.

Found some @opensourcepledge.com member companies at #pycon!

Who can relate? "Eventually I came to face the music - Nobody gives a crap about real projects. The people who knew my value weren’t the people who could pay me."

If you're interested in software security at #PyConUS I've compiled a list of all talks, open spaces, and events related to security! 🐍🛡️ 👉 sethmlarson.dev/pycon-us-202... #pycon #pyconus2025 #python #security #oss #opensource

I just booked my next NYC trip for June 16-19, to film for Open Path (hoping to get ep. 2 out before then—teaser attached). I want to talk to Open Source maintainers, company founders, and randos on the street. Suggestions? 🙏

As a software developer, I've been thinking a lot right now about AI, change, and anxiety ... and wrote a blog post about it. It's also about my time working at a bookstore in the mid-2000s, and has a lot of programming book nostalgia. Hope it's mildly interesting. benv.ca/blog/posts/t...

Latest blog post is out! Funding in Open Source: A Conversation with @chadwhitacre.com #oss #ossfunding #funding dev.to/nickytonline...

@bolt.new are looking for an engineer to advance web computing by working on WebContainer, the first in-browser WebAssembly-based operating system. You'd be getting paid to be an Open Source contributor, AND you'd get to work with @patak.dev. Sounds pretty good to us! opensourcepledge.com/jobs/

Who do I know who is looking for a senior+ developer job?

🎶 For those about to support OSS Maintainers... 🎶 FIRE 💥 🎶 WE SALUTE YOU 🎶 🫡 #MaintainerMay

This is really pleasing

Here's the official photo from last week's Nasdaq MarketSite appearance of the @opensourcepledge.com. Can't wait to share the behind-the-scenes footage in the next episode of Open Path. openpath.quest