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Good morning fellow developers!
In October, we have been celebrating the open source movement. In the past few years, lots of discussion has been happening around responsibilities, funding and health of the open source ecosystem, so we collected a few good pieces for you to read. Here's this month's collection of hand-picked articles to get your day started.
Articles that made us talk
The rise of few-maintainer projects
The event-stream npm incident raised a lot of discussion about open source ecosystem and how the responsibilities and expectations should be managed. In this article, Nadia Eghbal discusses the phenomenon of few-maintainer projects in the open source world.
AWS Promotional Credits for Open Source Projects
AWS is providing promotional credits to their platform for open source projects that are released under an OSI-approved license. “Typically, these credits are used to perform upstream and performance testing, CI/CD, or storage of artifacts on AWS. We hope this program will free up resources for open source projects to further expand and innovate in their communities, as several projects are already doing.” - AWS
Improving documentation of open source software
Open source development is often seen as a very programming-focused endeavour as most of the contributions and expertise in the projects comes from the technical side. An age-old debate in the open source world has been the usability and approachability of those tools. This spring, we spent a few evenings in Helsinki to discuss, learn and contribute to open source documentation.
The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?
Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about how to make open source work sustainable. Whether the work is funded by a company running the project, through corporate or community donations or through other means, there are no silver bullet. In this Vice article from earlier this spring, they discuss the status and ideas for how open source can be funded sustainably
Keeping sites accessible with types – Fotis Papadogeorgopoulos
Accessibility on the web takes effort. The responsibility is split amongst development, design, and really anything that touches the product. On development and design, many of the common issues (color contrast, semantic markup and forms) have known practices and patterns. However, there is a problem: HTML is permissive of anything and the semantic patterns often require expertise and research. On a bad day, or a tight deadline, even the most diligent person can miss things.
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