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Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Given limited time and attention, solo maintainers need to balance reactive tasks (community interactions) with proactive ones (writing code).
Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
How I Hire Programmers Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought
aaronsw.comWith information effortlessly transferable at zero marginal cost and social platforms that blast content to the top of everyone’s feed, it’s difficult to for an ethics based on scarcity to sustain itself.
subpixel space • After Authenticity
A few of the conditions that Benkler identifies as necessary to pull off commons-based peer production are intrinsic motivation, modular and granular tasks, and low coordination costs.
Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Open source projects, the infrastructure of digital public goods, have long relied on unsustainable funding sources like Github Sponsors, Open Collective, or Buy Me A Coffee. Besides the very few that have reached commercial success by transforming into enterprise SaaS, the vast majority of projects failed to find adequate funding.
Tina He • [FKPXLS] The New Frontier of Belonging
Aaron Gabriel Neyer
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