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We're in a strange moment for open source careers. Many people who built the infrastructure, shaped the standards, crafted the policies, and nurtured the communities that open source depends on are increasingly being hit by layoffs and a shifting grant landscape. In parallel there's a rallying

Or How we might build on Drupal Credits approach to standardize attribution Evaluating open source contributions, especially at the organizational level,remains frustratingly opaque. Who's actually investing in the projects we all depend on? Right now, there's no reliable way to say definitively. That lack of

The open source origin story describes a time when transparency, collaboration, and inclusion helped us build software that shifted power and value over the tools and infrastructure we depend on away from corporations and toward people and communities. It worked. Not without its own inequities and blind spots, but it

Despite countless calls for open source sustainability, there's still no clear pathway for maintainers to express needs and receive help. In my personal time, I've built a working proposal for how this problem might be solved using a community-based approach. It's called Open Source

Launching next week: Open Source Wishlist Every open source security incident teaches us something new; but more often than not we are reminded of past lessons. Projects and maintainers need help, succession plans, modern security practices, trusted governance as well as moderation and funding strategies. Minimally. Despite years of experiments

How OSPOs can drive alignment around meaning for openness and AI Ana Jiménez Santamaría’s blog post How Open Source Program Offices Make OSS and AI Work did a great job of speaking to to the ways in which OSPOs can help organizations navigate AI risks. I also believe OSPOs

The Technical Program Manager role require a strong mix of business skills including: business analyst, software development, project and people managers. We hold a lot together, but also depend on engineers and designers to prototype and build solutions. This means we're often waiting for the time of those

The career benefits of open source contribution are well-established. The business value for companies is also well known. However, I have noticed a significant challenge over the years: employee at many technical companies (even those with brand identity tied to open technologies) struggle to secure leadership approval for their time

Moderation is the heart of open source capability - the success of which drives critical outcomes for security, sustainability and innovation. The lack of which can cause significant harm to projects and people.

This past week, I listened to a very interesting (and at times scary) podcast interview with Daniel Kokotajlo, an AI safety researcher and former Open AI employee. I was very interested to learn about 'alignment' . Alignment in AI, is the term used to describe the challenging of ensuring

Right now, many of us are suspicious of AI as something being done to us rather than for us. Corporate-driven efforts to advance capabilities feel more in service of stock prices than uplifting and empowering users' lives. This lack of control and user influence is why the open source