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Articles

Enforcing the pyramid of Open Source

"This comes from my view as an Open Source author and contributor since almost three decades now."

Open source developers, who work for free, are discovering they have power

TechCrunch is getting in on the action!

Open Source Security at the White House

"Leading cybersecurity executives and officials from top corporate and government organizations met at the White House to discuss ways to improve open source and software supply chain security."

They forgot to invite the creator of curl ⤵️

Over 90 WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack

"A massive supply chain attack compromised 93 WordPress themes and plugins to contain a backdoor, giving threat-actors full access to websites."

What Are The Most Common Security Issues With Free Open Source Software?

"Linux Foundation's Census II identifies the most commonly utilized free and open-source software (FOSS) parts in production apps and analyses them for potential vulnerabilities, which can inform actions to sustain the long-term security and health of FOSS."

Podcasts

Sustain Episode 105: John Amaral and Kyle Quest on Slim.ai

"John and Kyle talk about Slim.ai, who is using it, the tools they are building, and why Kyle created DockerSlim."

Sustain Open Source Design Episode 19: Conor Okus and Christoph Ono on the Bitcoin Design Community

"Christoph Ono, a UX and digital product designer from the Bitcoin Design Community, and Conor Okus of Block, part of an initiative called Spiral (previously Square Crypto) fill us in about the Bitcoin Design Community, Bitcoin Design grants, and some challenges they had to face in starting this community."

Videos

Don't let Open Source projects die!

This video has over 95,000 views. This is amazing for a video talking about open source sustainability! Let's keep the conversation (about funding open source) going. 🎉

Disclaimer: All links that I post in any newsletter issue are what I (Justin) find interesting and or thought-provoking. I don’t agree with everyone, but I do value their perspectives.

The Non-Code Contributor - Issue #22

Links

How OSPOs are dealing with Log4j vulnerability issue?

How I recruit and mentor contributors and how you should, too