Often as an Open Source project grows there becomes a need to allocate funding resources to specific projects, teams or initiatives. It can be challenging to do this in an open and transparent way, effectively ring fencing the funds for specific purposes.

Here’s how we achieved this with Open Collective, some of the gotchas we encountered, and how it’s working out for us.

With any Open Source project, once you have an established logo and brand you want a way to get that out into the world on swag for your community to proudly share, in a way that does not burden you as a maintainer. Here's how we did it in Mautic.

In my job I have the great privilege of travelling quite a bit, sometimes long distance. Today I’m writing this from my hotel room in São Paulo, after attending a conference for the past two days.

I figured it might be helpful for other EDS folks to share some of the ‘hacks’ I use to make travelling long distances for work something not only survivable, but enjoyable.

Another action-packed quarter has passed, let’s dive into a roundup of what we’ve been up to!

Pretty soon after setting up Ubuntu Studio on my laptop (which I plan to use for my music recording and composition) it became obvious that all was not well in JACK land. My excitement at everything 'working out of the box' was somewhat premature on this machine! 

Having started to learn the flute three years ago and taking up piano during lockdown to help me with learning how to compose, I've increasingly been tinkering with open source digital audio tooling to record and tweak various musical endeavours.

Some time ago after complaining about the challenges of getting audio (and specifically MIDI) working under Kubuntu, someone happened to suggest taking a look at Ubuntu Studio - a distribution of Ubuntu specifically aimed towards creative folks.

It’s hard to believe that three years ago today I was nervously preparing for my drive to Reading to pick up my laptop and have my induction training on the first day of my new job as Mautic Community Manager. 

I certainly wasn't expecting to be playing with toy unicorns, ribbon, jewels and pine cones during our first in-person meeting of the Breathworks board since I joined back in 2021, but a few weeks ago that's precisely where I found myself!