There are a great number of funding sources for those in open source to consider. Any funding - taking investment or receiving a grant - comes with strings attached
A guide to identifying your projects a core goals and enable better community collaboration.
A guide to mapping out and evaluating how the specific features of your project speak to the meta goals of your project.
When considering how any project will run, you typically need to understand the roles that project members play and how decisions are made.
Considering the actions of the many players in the open scholarship space as a unified collective action – a movement -- offers an opportunity to have dramatic impact.
If our goal is to tackle complex problems, then we need complex organizations with diverse leadership.
Working as an individual can be challenging, but we provide some guidance on how to grow your project and transition to a team environment as your work develops.
Expectations of leaders have shifted, big time.
Understanding how how funders make funding decisions can help a project understand how it fits in.
Common approaches to ask a funder for assistance and approaching them in a way that will make success most likely.
There's no magic formula for sustainability in an open source project.
When open science, open access, or open scholarship are discussed, we encourage communities to question it.
How do we grow a truly decentralized, inclusive, and resilient movement?
Defining project requirements is a good way to check what your project should do and, more importantly, why.
While you’re defining your approach to budgeting, you might consider the following questions early to set yourself up for success.
Methods to develop requirements centered around your audience.
Before you start making decisions about your favorite technology stack or development platform, think about the infrastructure and trajectory of your project.
What is fiscal sponsorship, and how does it support project in open source?
There's no one path to financial sustainability that is right for all projects.
Open scholarship challenges systems of scholarly production, and provides an opportunity to embed anti-racism, anti-capitalism, and intersectional feminism in our scholarly communication system.