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Ben (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamuk/) and Andrew (@andrewnez) join host Richard (@richlitt) to explore ecosyste.ms, a project using open source metadata to guide funding and support key projects with smart, ecosystem-aware algorithms.

Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/270

Ecosyste.ms Apr 12

Ecosyste.ms Apr 7

Ecosystem Funds is Generally Available https://blog.ecosyste.ms/2025/04/04/ecosystem-funds-ga.html

Ecosystem Funds is Generally Available

Today Open Source Collective and ecosyste.ms are launching Funds supporting 291 Open Source Ecosystems. Unsurprisingly, we call them Ecosystem Funds.

Ecosystems Blog

Ecosyste.ms Apr 8

Andrew Nesbitt Apr 8

Slopsquatting – when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting.

Credit to @sethmlarson for the name

Ecosyste.ms Apr 7

Andrew Nesbitt Apr 7

I might be in need a couple ruby/rails contractors in a few weeks time for work on @ecosystems, know anyone? Send them my way!

Ecosyste.ms Apr 7

Ecosystem Funds is Generally Available https://blog.ecosyste.ms/2025/04/04/ecosystem-funds-ga.html

Ecosystem Funds is Generally Available

Today Open Source Collective and ecosyste.ms are launching Funds supporting 291 Open Source Ecosystems. Unsurprisingly, we call them Ecosystem Funds.

Ecosystems Blog

Ecosyste.ms Dec 9, 2024

Pelle Wessman Dec 9, 2024

The @oscollective.org is teaming up with ecosyste.ms and @sentry.io to support the long tail of dependencies. Will be interesting to see how this develops. ecosyste.ms is a gem that I eg. use to power the #neostandard canary and compatibility test lists

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q3moczhdry2263q35ffqqzs5/post/3lcvarwbbks2l

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Ecosyste.ms Sep 25, 2024

and we're back! Sorry about the downtime.

Ecosyste.ms Sep 25, 2024

Having some network problems on the packages.ecosyste.ms host at the moment, sorry for the downtime, should be back soon.

Ecosyste.ms Jul 2, 2024

benjam Jul 2, 2024

In May 2021 Octobox.io donated $10k to its dependecies because 'We need to fund projects based on what we use rather than what we see'.

Today Microsoft has started doing the same: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/06/27/5-things-we-learned-from-sponsoring-a-sampling-of-our-open-source-dependencies/

All powered by the years of work we've done at @ecosystems

5 things we learned from sponsoring a sampling of our open source dependencies - Microsoft Open Source Blog

Microsoft is experimenting with and investing in sustainability of the open source ecosystem sponsorships. Learn more.

Microsoft Open Source Blog

Ecosyste.ms Jun 24, 2024

Andrew Nesbitt Jun 24, 2024

New Blog post: From ZeroVer to SemVer: A Comprehensive List of Versioning Schemes in Open Source

A summary of 15 different versioning schemes I've found across open source, did I miss any?

https://nesbitt.io/2024/06/24/from-zerover-to-semver-a-comprehensive-list-of-versioning-schemes-in-open-source.html

From ZeroVer to SemVer: A Comprehensive List of Versioning Schemes in Open Source

A curated catalogue of versioning schemes used in open source software—from the conventional to the creative.

Andrew Nesbitt