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4 Key Metrics for Measuring the Health of Your Open Source Project

WebAlthough popularity measurements of your open source project “might be interesting and exciting, they don’t often provide any real insight into project health or …

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Welcome to FOSSlife

WebWe’re proud to announce the launch of FOSSlife – a new web magazine dedicated to the world of free and open source software. The Free software community …

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The Many Forms of FOSS Advocacy

WebThe Many Forms of FOSS Advocacy. By Pam Baker, 29 May, 2020. tweet. share. share. Free and open source software (FOSS) came about as a counter to …

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OSI’s Joshua Simmons on the State of Open Source

WebBy Amber Ankerholz, 25 September, 2020. In his keynote presentation at the recent State of the Source Summit, Joshua Simmons, President at Open Source Initiative, provided a …

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Sustainability for Open Source Projects: 4 Big Questions

Web4 Big Questions. In fact, upon closer inspection many projects may find that their path to sustainability involves a combination of people and financial elements that …

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How to Apply a License to Your Open Source Project

WebAt the bare minimum, there are three steps: Choose a license: While more than one hundred FOSS licenses are available, it's unlikely you'll need anything beyond …

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How CHAOSS Measures Open Source Community Health

WebCHAOSS (which stands for Community Health Analytics Open Source Software) is a Linux Foundation project “focused on creating analytics and metrics to …

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5 Metrics to Track Open Source Project Health

WebThe CHAOSS community has defined more than 70 metrics for measuring the health of open source projects and organizations, says Georg Link, and it provides …

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Linus Torvalds on the Importance of Open Source

WebAhead of the 30th anniversary of Linux, coming up in August of 2021, Jeremy Andrews has conducted an two-part, in-depth interview with Linus Torvalds, …

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Linux System Monitoring with watch and fswatch

WebTwo More For the Toolbox. If you prefer to work from a desktop environment, Gnome offers command‑runner‑applet with approximately the same functionality as …

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Open Source Drive-Thru Contributors

WebIn many ways, a drive-thru contribution can be seen as ideal for an open source project. If a project is able to get dozens or even hundreds of new improvements and additions with …

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Open Source, Open Standards, and the Need for Collaboration

Web“Our world has big problems to solve,” says Guy Martin, executive director of OASIS Open, and finding solutions will require open source and open standards …

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OpenSSF Creates a Manifesto for the Consumption of Open …

Web“We are responsible for the open source we use, how we consume it, and how we manage the risk associated with that consumption,” states the new Open Source …

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Understanding Open Management Practices

WebThe practices, which are described in more detail on the GitHub site, include: Inspire shared purpose. Deliver results through empowerment. Make decisions in an …

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Open Source Success: CERN

WebOpen Source Power. The power behind CERN’s immense scientific computing infrastructure lies in the 230,000 processor cores and 15,000 continuously running servers that …

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Rocket Girls: A Growing Force for Tech Education and Diversity

WebAdditionally, we make sure that students realize that Rocket Girls is a safe place to learn and develop technical as well as life skills and that they understand the …

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Open Source Alternatives to Try in 2023

WebIn this article, Watkins rounds up a variety of open source tools to consider in place of proprietary products, such as Mastodon in place of Twitter. Other open source …

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From Unix to Linux: Key Trends in the Evolution of Operating

WebFrom Unix to Linux: Key Trends in the Evolution of Operating Systems (Part 1) By Andy Oram, 13 November, 2020. Linux is an odd creature: a technology rooted in the 1970s …

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