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Open Source Subway Map

If you don't actually want to read this whole post (no shame at all) the tl;dr is that I'm going to try using a GitHub project to organize and hold myself accountable for open source maintenance. Mental health is a weird thing, sometimes. Like, oh

Open Source Update: Waffle

I just pushed version 0.11 of Waffle [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-waffle/0.11], the feature flipper for Django [https://www.djangoproject.com/]. It contains a number of code and documentation fixes [https://github.com/jsocol/django-waffle/compare/v0.10.1...v0.11] which you can also see

Open Source Update: Bleach

As of today, I transferred ownership of Bleach [https://github.com/mozilla/bleach] to the Mozilla organization, and the Mozilla WebDev team, in particular Will Kahn-Greene [http://bluesock.org/~willkg/] and Jannis Leidel [https://twitter.com/jezdez/], are taking over maintenance of it. Huge thanks to Will, Jannis and Chris

Bounties and Tips

Last week [https://www.coffeeonthekeyboard.com/biweekly-ish-update-07nov2014-1185/] I wandered into the tip4commit fracas [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969] and a “helpful” commenter pointed out Bountysource, so I started asking some questions there. There must have been a few others doing the same thing because, to their credit, they

Actually Starting an Open Source Project

I’m a little late to the party, but I just got around to reading Starting an Open-Source Project [http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/01/03/starting-open-source-project/] and, as someone who has started several reasonably successful projects, I wanted to publicly disagree with, essentially, the entire article. The article outlines

Mozilla Web Development is Open Source

At Mozilla, our web development projects are open source, publicly available, and interested in community contributions. This is one of those things that makes absolute sense when you hear it, but you may have never heard, or thought, of it before. It’s not terribly well-publicized—that’s something Mike