Interesting points. Forums are clearly not good replacements for mailing lists. They might be a good complementary to mailing lists but both have very different affordances.

This is a very rich article. There's indeed more and more a rift between Open Source projects used by hyperscalers and the ones used by smaller businesses and individuals. You likely want to aim for the latter.

Github is definitely entrenched by now. Students and beginners hardly look for projects outside of it. Sad state of affair.

This piece is (unsurprisingly) biased. Still there's some truth there. C++ is here to stay, like it or not. The safety issues are overblown and are getting addressed. Now where the article is lacking is that the language has other issues. Also, will profiles ever become a real thing?

Indeed, social media even the fediverse isn't really about communication or community, it's about consuming content.

This is really a big problem that those companies created for Free Software communities. Due to the lack of regulation they're going around distributing copyright removal machines and profiting from them. They should have been barred from ingesting copyleft material in the first place.

Nice little post, indeed the license is not enough to base a decision on. You need to look at the business, presence of CLA or not, etc.

Very good move on their part. It's time more people do so. Beside, Forgejo (powering Codeberg) looks very interesting. I plan to play with it more next year.

This is indeed the best way to handle your open source dependencies. I got concerns about the ability to sell that to management though because of the extra steps. It's also probably why you want to have an OSPO in your company, it's a good way to lower the barrier for developers to contribute this way.

This is a very valid question. The most likely answer is somewhat cruel though.

This latest development in the Ruby community is rather concerning.

Very nice article on the Wikipedia success. Or why being boring and the ultimate process pettiness became the crucial part of the formula. This community really developed a fascinating culture which so far resists to mounting political pressure... But will the editors morale hold?

This stays true, most projects are maintained by a single person and that's a problem. Where is the support from all the businesses benefiting from FOSS?

An old paper which is still very relevant today. It's very much written in the context of the early women's liberation movement, and yet the lessons a much more broadly applicable.

It's indeed difficult to separate FUD from the real community issues around Matrix right now. We'll have to keep an eye on how things evolve.

Nice idea and well executed I'd say. If you got doubts about something being FOSS, stopping there and checking is in order.

This is definitely a paradox in community dynamics.

I'm not sure this dichotomy is enough for building a taxonomy of FOSS projects. But I guess it's a start and captures something often missing in other such attempts.

Flatpak is at a crossroad I'd say. The project really needs to find a way to move forward.

There's a sustainability issue for the REST support with Django. Hopefully this will resolve.