Open source leadership

An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Open Source And Beyond - Part 2

Jeremy — Wed, 05 May 2021 13:00:36 +0000

In this second part, Linus offers insight and perspective gained from managing a large open source project for three decades. He also talks about his employment at the Linux Foundation, and describes what he does with his spare time when he's not focused on kernel development.

Jeremy Wed, 05/05/2021 - 06:00

An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git - Part 1

Jeremy — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:29:57 +0000

Thirty years ago, Linus Torvalds was a 21 year old student at the University of Helsinki when he first released the Linux Kernel. His announcement started, “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional…)”. Three decades later, the top 500 supercomputers are all running Linux, as are over 70% of all smartphones. Linux is clearly both big and professional.

Jeremy Wed, 04/28/2021 - 06:29

Financially Supporting Your Open Source Development Work - with Dries Buytaert - Pt. 2

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:20:08 +0000

While there are many companies based in open source software that are successfully funding themselves based on consultancy and other services, that’s not necessarily true of individual contributors. As part of our series of talks with Open Source Leaders, Tag1 Consulting’s Managing Director Michael Meyers, VP of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, and Yjs founder Kevin Jahns talk with Dries Buytaert about open source projects and communities. This talk focuses on open source project sustainability and funding.

lynette@tag1co… Wed, 04/07/2021 - 09:20

How to Grow, Support, and Fund your Open Source Project - with Dries Buytaert - Pt. 1

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:28:34 +0000

Dries Buytaert’s name is known to everyone in the Drupal community. As the originator of the project, project lead, and co-founder of Acquia, Dries has been a pivotal person in the success of Drupal. During this interview, you’ll learn more about some of the accomplishments, accidents, and purposeful decisions that have made Drupal what it is today.

lynette@tag1co… Wed, 03/31/2021 - 12:28

How to Fund your Open Source Project: A talk with Marijn Haverbeke - Part 2

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:36:06 +0000

Funding your interests isn’t always easy, and that’s true of many open source projects as well. The majority of open source projects are created and maintained by people working on their projects in their spare time. For some, their employers or other companies are willing and able to sponsor open source development projects, enabling their maintainers to do work they would not otherwise be able to do. In this Tag1 Team Talk, CodeMirror and ProseMirror, and Acorn project founder Marijn Haverbeke joins Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers, Vice President of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, and Yjs creator Kevin Jahns to talk about how Marijn funds his projects, and the expectations that can come with that funding. For more from Marijn, see part one of this series, where we talk about how Marijn runs his projects. ### Additional Info and Links - ProseMirror: https://prosemirror.net/ - GitHub development site for project - CodeMirror: https://codemirror.net/ - Acorn JavaScript Parser: https://github.com/acornjs/acorn - Eloquent JavaScript: https://eloquentjavascript.net/ - Marijn’s Personal Site: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/ --- _For a transcript of this video, see [Transcript - Marijn Haverbeke - part 2](/transcript-marijn-haverbeke-part-2 "Transcript - Marijn...

lynette@tag1co… Wed, 03/10/2021 - 12:36

How to Grow, Support, and Fund your Open Source Project - Marijn Haverbeke - Part 1

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:46:06 +0000

While many open source projects are successful due in part to their large contributor base, not all projects work best that way; other project leaders prefer to keep contributions from others tightly controlled. Depending on the use cases, either method can work well. For CodeMirror and ProseMirror, a tightly controlled code base is part of the culture of the project.

lynette@tag1co… Tue, 03/02/2021 - 05:46