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Hei, #fediverse!
Please forward this #survey by the #EU #Commission about #OpenSource #Sustainability to anyone you know that uses Open Source:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FOSSEPS_Governance_and_Sustainability_Survey
At the German #Perl Workshop, I had the privilege to organize a panel about #OpenSource #Sustainability on #CPAN and it's related communities.
Together with Ferenc Erki (@ferki), Julien Fiegehenn (simbabque), and Sören M. Laird Sörries (@relais), we talked about meet-ups, volunteering, mental health, funding, and much more. It was great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R6uhTCUWig
(With apologies for the annoying apple emojis that pop up during the session)
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Back in March I helped out during the sustainoss.org summit by facilitating a session about mentoring and planning for succession in open source software projects.
Find the summarised thoughts from our discussion over on github https://github.com/sustainers/mentoring-and-succession-planning
Mentoring and succession planning: How we structure and maintain community - notes and outputs from Sustain's Virtual Forum 2025 from the group that spoke about and worked on how to plan for ex...
Just found @dries's 2019 blog post looking at the Prisoner's Dilemma as a way to describe Open Source sustainability,
https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and-takers-to-scale-and-sustain-open-source
Anyone here know of other/more recent resources that dive a little further into this topic?
#SustainOSS #OpenSource #Sustainability #Economics #GameTheory #PrisonersDilemma
Another great @sustainoss #Podcast this time with @brian on Approachable Open Source https://podcast.sustainoss.org/262
Lots of nuggets for #OpenSource maintenance. Thanks @richlitt & @abbycabs
Worth checking out Brian's book too:
https://approachableopensource.com/
Brian talks about his book, Approachable Open Source, emphasizing diverse contributions and inclusive paths in open source.
The blog post on why Flutter was formed into Flock is an interesting read. Not because I care about Flutter or Flock as such, but the pain points it raises around "the cost of limited labor" (small team, no time to expand by training & accepting external contributors). Very recognisable.
Hoping to take some inspiration from the solution it seeks to that problem.
https://getflocked.dev/blog/posts/we-are-forking-flutter-this-is-why/
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