Redefining Open Source via "Commercial Open Source"

#OpenSource

As i’ve written about before, I think the term “Open Source” is quite important but it’s not uncommon to see the term stretched or misrepresented, often for business benefit. For the last year I’ve been recording such scenarios and a frequent character in those records has been Runa Capital, a venture capital firm founded in 2010 that has a focus on tech.

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Moving to Mastodon

#OpenSource

Like many folks recently, I’ve decided to just use Mastodon instead of Twitter. You can find me at @danb@fosstodon.org. Decided I’d document my thoughts that have lead to this. Thoughts on Twitter These are specific to my usage, having been using Twitter for about 6/7 years.

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Gaining Sponsors

#OpenSource #Career #BookStack

Recently, after transparently sharing BookStack funding data I’ve had a few questions from others regarding how I’ve gained sponsors. There’s no magic hack I’m afraid, but below details my own experience and thoughts on this.

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"This is a Low Maintenance Project"

#OpenSource

I love open source, but publishing, maintaining & supporting an open source project can take a lot of effort & time. There can often be expectations that if your project is open then you’re looking to grow it out with added features and contributions.

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Migrating Google Photos to my Personal NAS

#Selfhosted #Linux #Bash

Recently I’ve been working to somewhat detach myself from Google services after seeing growing reported cases of users being suddenly locked out of their account without any possible recourse. As part of this, I had about 5 year’s worth of photos stored solely within Google Photos that I wanted to migrate and organise within my personal NAS storage.

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