1. Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has managed to create one of the Internet’s greatest public goods.
Its success is particularly impressive considering that the site is operated by a non-profit organization and most of its content is crowdsourced by unpaid volunteers.
Mar 19, 2019 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Last week we released @radicle_xyz , a decentralized alternative to Github built on IPFS. ✨
The software is still very alpha, but below is some history and context for our project 👇
1. We started the project with the belief that code collaboration infrastructure is too critical to be controlled by a single corporation in a closed source way.
May 18, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ I am continually surprised by how confused people are when it comes to 'OS sustainability'. Most people are very confident they understand the problem, but when you speak to them, they immediately default to 'let's incentivize contributions to OS' 🤦♂️
2/ From my experiences, one of the main reasons for the confusion is the lack of awareness around 'maintainers'. Most people believe that OSS operates magically, simply based on contributions, but aren't informed about what a maintainer does and why it's so important
