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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.

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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.

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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.