COSS For An Open Future In this post I’ll cover my formative career learnings that led to what I’ve dedicated my life’s work to, hopefully for decades to come. Early Days and
Creator Series Open Source Creator Series, Part 6: How to Measure Community Building This is Part 6 of our Open Source Creator Series on “How to Measure Community Building" to help you – the open source technology creators – understand and bootstrap some of the
Resources Open Source Culture Company Handbooks This is a reference list of company handbooks who are building an open source company culture. This list is inspired by a recent conversation between DROdio (CEO at Armory) and
Building Company Open Source Culture DROdio (CEO at Armory) and Kate MacAleavey (Head of Culture and Leadership Development at Armory) recently had a fascinating discussion on YouTube with Joseph Jacks about "open source culture", in
Building Company Good and not Evil: the Advent of Ethos Licensing This post was first published on the blog, Copyleft Currents. For years, my clients have asked me what to do about the “Good not Evil” license, which is most famously
Building Company Lessons in Managing a Distributed Team Building a 100% distributed, or remote first, workforce is becoming more popular for tech companies. Some notable ones are: GitLab, Basecamp, Hashicorp, Automattic, and DEV. (If I missed any, please
Doing Business PolyForm and Open Core Although PolyForm licenses have many uses, one important driver of the value for PolyForm licenses is the Open Core licensing model.
Doing Business COSS Company Value Creation and Capture Fundamentals This post defines the distinctions of value creation and value capture between closed-source and open-source software companies.
Developing Product COSS Will Eat $500+ Billion Of SaaS Over ~20 Years This post predicts that Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) companies will eat SaaS over the next 20 years.
Developing Product What does the shift to multi-cloud-OSS-aaS mean for COSS companies/founders? What are the implications for COSS companies as the world moves to multi-cloud? This post explores this topic.
Doing Business COSS Business Model Progressions This post explores the various business models applicable to Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) companies, and how they work and progress during the lifetime of a company.
Building Company The $100 Billion+ Commercial OSS Index (COSSI) This post summarizes the origin, motivation, and goal of the Commercial Open Source Software Index (COSSI).
