open source

An important aspect and motivator of open source is empowerment. Open source has come a long way since the 1970s, but we have more work to do to make it accessible to the growing number of people i...

Transparency is key in open source. Openness is for more than just code — it's also for how we run the projects themselves. Read more about why operational transparency is important in my second Le...

What does #OpenSource look like beyond the license? How can we describe the structure and characteristics of a project using a shared vocabulary? I start to explore this by developing a social mode...

I'm absolutely delighted that GitHub decided to implement my idea to highlight codes of conduct alongside the README and LICENSE for open source projects. Codes of conduct are such important tools ...

Amanda Casari and I launched a new project, called Open Source Stories, with the goal to capture the untold stories around open source and open source contributors. Open Source Stories recognizes t...

On the first day that GitHub organization READMEs launched, we published our first draft of the Twitter GitHub organization's README! More to come, but we were happy to see this feature request ful...

Serving on a conference committee (archive link) is hard work, especially when there are so many good submissions! I was happy for the opportunity to help select sessions on a topic that I care dee...

I was honored to speak at the Women in Data Science Puget Sound Conference this year. They let me ramble about the importance of establishing sound (pun intended) metrics, especially in the world o...

In 2013, I successfully proposed and established Google Cloud's first GitHub organization (with many more to come). I like to think that this set the stage for so many great open source projects th...

Google Open Source Programs Office funds a grant for the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center, to further the state of open source research. Initiated by Amanda Casari and myself, we hope t...