by Jordi Cabot | Aug 18, 2023 | Community
The long-term sustainability of FOSS is a complex and multi-dimensional problem (technical, economical, social, political, etc.). We believe more transparency in how projects are governed would be a significant improvement to all such dimensions. And one that it is...
by Javier Cánovas | Jun 1, 2023 | Code, Community
The development of Open Source projects is more than just coding and releasing software. Nowadays, project maintainers have to pay attention to a number of configuration and information files, such as license, contribution guidelines, code of conduct or security...
by Adem Ait Fonollà | Sep 21, 2022 | Community, Uncategorized
The growing AI market has generated an explosion of libraries, datasets, models and all types of AI-related software artefacts to exploit and serve such markets. Many of them released with open-source licenses to facilitate their reuse and foster collaboration efforts...
by Javier Cánovas | May 17, 2022 | Code, Community
As part of our research work, we periodically monitor GitHub to know what is being brewed and what is getting more attention (using stars as a proxy for attention / popularity) from the community. During May 2022, we performed a quick pass on the top 25 starred...
by Adem Ait Fonollà | Apr 25, 2022 | Community, research
As you all know, Open Source software (OSS) proposes a collaborative development model where the code is accessible and anyone can contribute. However, this very own collaborative nature becomes one of its main sources of problems, as developers abandoning the project...
by Jordi Cabot | Jan 25, 2022 | Community, Process
There are many strategies to fund open source software development. None of them is a silver bullet. Indeed, OSS sustainability is still a major concern. And WordPress has an original approach to this challenge, called Five for the future. In short, Five for the...
