ByDan Knauss
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Chris Aniszczyk talks about open source gerrymandering by looking at a variety of different open-source and similar platforms to see how they are governed. 🎩
It’s really important to note that there is a difference between open source and open governance, and you should always be skeptical of a project that claims it’s truly open if only one for profit company owns all the assets and control.
Unfortunately, maintaining open source projects can be a total drain. Daniel Bachhuber offers his condolences if you do so, like him.
Jenn Schiffer, Community Engineer of Glitch.com, interviews Gary Pendergast about open source licensing and how it relates to WordPress. Gary mentions he’s happy with React’s move to the MIT license, but still points out how it could be improved. One of the lessons, as Jenn states, to be learned here is the importance of considering…
Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but insightful take on “the open source paradox,” which is “the proportionality between the money people give you for coding something, and the level of demand for the quality they can claim to have about your work.” On the one hand, “[t]he real right you have, and often don’t exploit,…
Riad Benguella recently announced on the WordPress.com developer blog the launch of the Open Source WordPress API console. This is an application that allows you to make read and write requests to the WordPress.com API or the WordPress REST API for any site on WordPress.com or using Jetpack. It’s also possible to use this with…
I encountered an article today that made my blood boil. Phillip Thomson wrote about the cost of three websites for the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Sydney Morning Herald. The article blasts Julie Bishop and her department for spending $113,000 on upgrades and maintenance for three websites. I have no opinion on Australian…
Misogyny is alive and well in WordPress, but it doesn’t have to be. If we work together, we can make it an even safer space for all.
