Great reads - November 2018 Edition

#1

What a month this has been for open source sustainability. Here is what I have read so far (no order):

Please share what you have been reading. cc @eric @downey @Samson_Goddy @GeorgLink @pia @elioqoshi @XhmikosR

p.s. Just because I link to something doesn’t mean I endorse it. I just find them thought provoking and/or interesting.

#2

I recently spoke at TruffleCon on open source sustainability. I’m presenting to an audience of blockchain developers, so the message was directed to that audience. Here’s the video:

#3

Great idea to share reading lists. I will start tracking what I read.

May I include works I wrote?
For example: Open Community Metrics and Privacy | MozFest’18 Recap

#4

Absolutely. Plug away.

#5
  1. I didn’t know you rapped. That is awesome. Please link to your all-time best.
  2. I love this: “ethical revenue”.
  3. :joy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTiyh47zFps&t=192
  4. You mention “Contributor”, “Maintainer” but your are missing one other important role…
#6

One of the things on my list to read comes from the Digital Impact Alliance with their outbound reporting from a session at MozFest, Towards A More Gender-Inclusive Open Source Community (report).

#7

Another interesting article: Amazon’s cloud business is competing with its customers

Jay Kreps, a creator of Kafka and co-founder and CEO of Confluent, told CNBC on Thursday said, Amazon has not contributed a single line of code to the Apache Kafka open-source software.

I posted something on Twitter regarding this and the two responses got me thinking…

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Just because AWS doesn’t contribute code back doesn’t mean they aren’t helping the project in another way. Maybe @zahedab can clear the air on this? At MaxCDN, we were a Nginx shop. Our platform was basically a GUI & API layer for a custom version of Nginx we distributed to each PoP. That is how we made money. We didn’t contribute code back BUT we did do other things like co-sponsored SPDY support.

FWIW

  • I don’t endorse the Twitter comments, I just find them interesting
  • I never even heard of Confluent until today and that is because of CNBC looking for a juicy story which happened to be good. So that’s something right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯