Every other Friday, we host a call to document, share, and respond to current events in open source sustainability. Our next call is happening Friday June 2, TODAY at 16:00-17:00 UTC (12pm ET / 9am PT) - notes & connection details
Here’s a summary of our April & May calls:
April 7
We kicked off the conversation talking about Self-service SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials), from the current lack of default formats, to questions around who uses them (auditors?), to where https://ecosyste.ms/ fits in helping discover weaknesses in the supply chain. Then we chatted about Sustain’s Governance Working Group Reboot and scheduling a good time.
Also reading: GitHub’s Maintainer Community, Funding option through NGI, and new GitHub Sponsor Fees
April 21
Big news this week with the first cohort of the GitHub Accelerator – should we invite them to the OC community call? Have a sprint demo? Should we collect all FOSS funds and programs that maintainers may be eligible for? Next up, Maintainer Month is coming up in May! @RichardLitt is doing some podcasts. We like the new GitHub repo page centered on README files.
Next we discussed a couple Sustain episode Dawn Wages of PSF on organizing communities, ethical licenses, and more and Pablo Ruiz Marquiz at FOSS Backstage 2023. Potential action items from this:
- Create an airtable to for everyone to add skills / areas they can help
- Host a workshop on how to setup GitHub repo / have a personal readme
- Share the Open Source Design event in Barcelona with others
Finally, news from Mautic separating from Acquia & OSC hiring @rcheesley. Can we offer a reliability template for OS projects for how they can have these conversations and ask for money?
May 19
@ShaneCurcuru started a FOSS Foundations Directory. You can send PRs! Drupal is a Digital Public Good. Coming out of a Sustain conversation, GitHub has automatic suggestions for what can be added to a repo. @ShaneCurcuru proposed (and got merged in!) adding GOVERNANCE.md as a default community health file. Some further actions for this: Build a resource that tells what goes into your governance.md file.
@Anita_Ihuman wrote about how implicit bias impacts diversity and inclusion. Can we ask @Anita_Ihuman to run a workshop? Can we built out other resources for this? Finally, we discussed a Pledge for progress from polar.sh. Some interesting ideas around bounty platforms – we’d love to hear more about this, perhaps on the Sustain podcast, but there have been similar ideas & platforms in the past.
Process point for these calls: We’ll be starting a repo to keep track of the action items from these calls. We’ll check back in 2 months to see the results.
Contributors
April 7: @RichardLitt @Lauren_Gardner @souravcipher @Ibiam @abitrolly @coni2k
April 21: @RichardLitt @coni2k
May 19: @anthonyronda @RichardLitt @brownie @coni2k @Ibiam