Charming Pirates: Reframing user acquisition and referral for OSS

Why should I care about being charming? The open source software community can learn a lot about how to attract new users and grow them into contributors and maintainers by thinking about their user journey, similar to how marketers and customer success teams think about new customers using “Pirate Metrics.” A cri de coeur to start treating the “funnel to contributor” user journey on par with the “funnel to customer” user journey.

Charming Pirates: Reframing user acquisition and referral for OSS · GitHub

Do you know what Pirate metrics are? Does AARRR! sound familiar? If you’ve got an open source project, it should, and @TashaDrew explains why:

Contributing to Complex Projects by Mitchell Hashimoto

As a frequent open source maintainer and contributor, I’m often asked: where do you start? How do you approach a new project with the goal of making meaningful changes? How can you possibly understand the internals of a complex project?

Healthy Open Source by Mikeal Rogers

Old publication (from 2016), but with content that applies to today's organizations (foundations) that are involved in some way with Open Source - not just creating, maintaining or contributing.

Mikeal from the Node.js Foundation shares in this publication how the foundation expects people and projects to be handled within the Node.js Foundation.

How Google, Twitter, and Spotify built a culture of documentation

No matter how advanced your tooling is, your documentation efforts will fail if you don't foster a culture of documentation.

SOL app, a macOS launcher/command palette

If you ever liked tools like Raycast and Alfred, but wanted to own them and tweak them yourself, then SOL is the tool for you. All the affordances of complex tools now made open source.

GitHub - ospfranco/sol: MacOS launcher & command palette

MacOS launcher & command palette. Contribute to ospfranco/sol development by creating an account on GitHub.

Take Notes from CLI - Noteli

A CLI based Notes App built using TypeScript, MongoDB and Auth0

COSS Weekly #73

💰 COSS Funding: $149.5M

• Docker, makers of Docker, announced their $105 million Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures.
• Dagger, building a devops operating system, announced their $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures.
• Garden.io, makers of a Kubernetes DevOps platform, announced their $16M Series A led by Sorenson Ventures and 468 Capital.
• OpenBB, makers of the open-source Bloomberg Terminal, announced their $8.5M Seed led by OSS Capital.
• Docker: "Docker has closed $105 million in Series C financing to accelerate our vision of enabling developers to spend more time on innovation, less time on everything else:" https://t.co/OMgzlQMTTb https://t.co/GoOq5fpTk2
• Solomon Hykes: "Congratulations @scottcjohnston @justincormack @morlhon and the entire @docker team for your new funding and impressive revenue growth. You focused on the basics: listening to the community, knowing when to say no, steady incremental improvement. Now it's paying off! ❤️🐳"
• OpenBB 🦋: "You may have noticed our big rebrand. YES we are funded. YES we are building the best open-source investment research platform. YES we are hiring! Our new website is now live, check it out https://t.co/gu4mbPO2fp. Read our full story on our blog page. Investment just evolved🦋"

💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)

https://twitter.com/fastly/status/1509154132300427265

https://twitter.com/streamlit/status/1509646993911521281

https://twitter.com/redpandadata/status/1509948285850722307