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A Varying Vagrant Vagrants Organization
This is a very transformative moment for the Varying Vagrant Vagrants project. About a week ago, I reached out to Jake with a proposal to move VVV from under the wing of 10up to an organization of its...
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v1.1 of Varying Vagrant Vagrants has been pushed
This is a smaller release in the grand scheme of things, though the first (!) as a new organization. The milestone has been ready for several weeks now. Thanks goes to Aaron Jorbin for prodding it...
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WCSF 2014 Talk: Public Universities and Open Source Software
The above is my talk about applying the open source ethos to sharing our work as a community in public land grant universities. I posted earlier with the full textual context and slides. You may...
View ArticleScience for the People!
Partly inspired by the experience, BSSRS staff member David Dickson later wrote in New Scientist magazine calling for “Community Science Resource Councils”. The idea, which sadly never took off, was a...
View ArticlePhilip O’Toole on the strange economics of open source software
many developers baulk at the idea that their work may never be seen by their peers in the open-source community, and therefore may never help them progress in their careers. Source: The strange...
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Pieter Hintjens on Building Open Source Communities
This was a really interesting listen. Pieter Hintjens, the founder of ZeroMQ, lays out a handful of rules for building open source communities. Put people before code. Make progress before you get...
View ArticleThings I’ve enjoyed reading about open source in 2016
I started this post back in February after reading Nadia Eghbal’s “What success really looks like in open source” so that I’d have something other than tweets to reference when I wanted to refer back...
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