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Software Stewardship Lab

@stewardshiplab.org
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A non-profit applied research lab ensuring the stability of the Open Source software ecosystem we all rely on. ✸ stewardshiplab.org

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 29/09/2026
Sovereign Tech Resilience relaunches with four new services for critical open source projects: memory safety, post-quantum encryption, supply chain security, and Cyber Resilience Act compliance. www.sovereign.tech/news/resilie... 1/
Sovereign Tech Resilience relaunches with four new services to prevent, discover, and eliminate vulnerabilities in critical digital infrastructure. Sovereign Tech Agency.Transition to memory safety: helping projects find where memory-safe languages and practices matter most, then supporting the move. Sovereign Tech Resilience logo in the upper right corner, Sovereign Tech Agency on the bottom.
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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 25/09/2026
With help from the amazing @mirandaheath.website, the 2026 State of Devs survey results are now available! 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/ This already took a ton of work, and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what the dataset could teach us.
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State of Devs 2026
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Miranda Heath @mirandaheath.website · 25/09/2026
So happy to be involved! What a rich picture of what it's like to be a dev in 2026—the good, the bad and the ugly!
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 23/09/2026
The Stewardship Lab has joined the @rustfoundation.org as an Associate Member! 🎉️ To support the Foundation in its mission of stewarding the Rust programming language, we're working to improve software supply chain security and developer education across the Rust ecosystem.
Software Stewardship Lab × Rust Foundation
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OpenSSF @openssf.org · 16/09/2026
AI moves fast. Critical infrastructure needs support. The OpenSSF Governing Board backs sustainable funding for public package registries: stronger security, reliable services, and continued free access for developers. We’re in. Join us: openssf.org/blog/2026/09...
Graphic titled "We’re In: Enterprise Commitment to Sustainable Package Registries" featuring the OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation) logo on a dark background. A grid on the right displays logos for supporting organizations: Arm, Datadog, Dell Technologies, Ericsson, GitHub, Google, IBM, Kusari, Microsoft, Red Hat, Rust Foundation, and Sonatype.
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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 31/08/2026
The critical infrastructure we use every day, like healthcare and transportation, depends on the security of our software supply chains. To protect this infrastructure, we're launching a new lab at NYU that will train the next generation of Open Source security experts.
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NYU Tandon Launches Initiative to Close a Critical Gap in Open Source Security and Train the Students Who Will Fill It | NYU Tandon School of Engineering
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SustainOSS @sustainoss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Daniel (@danielroe.dev) and Matias (@patak.cat) of npmx (npmx.dev) join host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) explores community, governance, inclusion, burnout, and sustainability beyond nonstop productivity. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/293
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Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’m proud of what we accomplished with the CHAOSS Practitioner Guides. I’ve written posts about individual guides, but I wanted to talk about how they fit together. This post focuses on building healthy and sustainable projects and is the first in a 4 part series. fastwonderblog.com/2026/08/20/p...
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Part 1: Building Healthy and Sustainable Projects Using CHAOSS Practitioner Guides | Fast Wonder
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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 19/08/2026
Did you know that a bunch of software packages we all depend on are hidden from dependency trees? I spoke about this at EuroPython 2026 😊️
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Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On - Vlad-Stefan Harbuz
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Scott Tolinski @tolin.ski · 14/08/2026
This is the most important video I've ever made. In this, I explore the negative and positive mental health effects of AI coding, with data and expert commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUn...
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The True Cost of AI Coding
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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This was a great conversation! a must listen for anyone interested in OSS funding and sustainability.
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Mike McQuaid @mikemcquaid.com · 07/08/2026
Some great people here doing some really interesting stuff.
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Felix Schneider @felixs.dev · 07/08/2026
I really love and support such movements in Open Source. 2026 has already been an amazing year for communities and ecosystems. Looking forward to what's to come 🚀
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Software Stewardship Lab - Open Collective
We're a non-profit applied research lab dedicated to ensuring the stability of the Open Source ecosystem we all rely on.
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 07/08/2026
Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.
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A Research Lab for Open Source ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.
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Open Source Pledge ⇌ @opensourcepledge.com · 31/07/2026
Package managers support our world's infrastructure, but those who build them have more work on their plate then ever. Companies who rely on this work for their revenue should give something back. It's in these companies' interest to keep this tech sustainable.
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 30/07/2026
Sounds like a great job opportunity for security-minded folks ✨
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Jacob Asper @jacobasper.com · 30/07/2026
We’ve saved hundreds of gigabytes of bandwidth per month so far! Reach out if you’re interested in helping! We help with outreach, repo modernization, analysis infra, and data analysis
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 30/07/2026
Excellent work reducing bandwidth usage in the Rust ecosystem 🎉
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Mike McQuaid @mikemcquaid.com · 27/07/2026
Homebrew is thriving while other open source projects struggle. Its scarcest resource isn't money: it's maintainer motivation.
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Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
Homebrew is thriving while other open source projects struggle. Its scarcest resource isn't money: it's maintainer motivation.
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 23/07/2026
Excellent research from @andrewnez.bsky.social 👏
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Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Loving the shares from the back catalog of #FOSSBack! This talk about recruiting contributors from 2023 is particularly relevant today with so many maintainers overworked and burning out. Related: this lovely report on maintainer burnout from @mirandaheath.website stewardshiplab.org/reports/burn...
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Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.
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Open Source Pledge ⇌ @opensourcepledge.com · 22/07/2026
secret discord server, please ignore…unless you are interested in open source funding 👀 discord.gg/Ay5abGkaxX
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Join the Open Source Pledge Discord Server!
Open Source software powers the world, but who supports the maintainers? We do. | 8 members
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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 15/07/2026
I'm at @europython.eu in Kraków, here to talk about binary dependencies, the @stewardshiplab.org and the @opensourcepledge.com. Come say hi!
Vlad holding his badge, with EuroPython attendees in the background
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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 03/07/2026
Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma
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Goodbye, forever, probably.
I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 01/07/2026
We're grateful to be helping @mu.social and @eurosky.social as a Trusted Verifier of the Open Source community! ✨️ If you have feedback on the verification process, let us know.
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Verification · mu
The Trusted Verifier Program on mu: a democratic, plural approach to verification. Verification tells you an account is who they claim to be.
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Andrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Taking Roads and Bridges literally - Reflections on UN Open Source Week 2026 nesbitt.io/2026/06/30/t...
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Taking Roads and Bridges literally
Reflections on UN Open Source Week 2026
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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 27/06/2026
hey that's me
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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 26/06/2026
This is how easy it is to migrate to European, nonprofit-governed infrastructure 🥰
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 25/06/2026
We need more package auditing tools like replacements.fyi to make our dependency trees more secure and performant. @e18e.dev is doing great work.
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Open Source Pledge ⇌ @opensourcepledge.com · 25/06/2026
To celebrate companies that pay maintainers, we've created a new website, featuring @danielroe.dev and folks from @ag-grid.bsky.social, @sanity.io, @sentry.io and other great companies. Let's support the tech we depend on. Here's to the next $7 million! 💃
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Open Source Pledge
Open Source software powers the world, but who supports the maintainers? We do.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 24/06/2026
Loving the plural verification thing that's taking off on mu.social. 💖💥 We should never have verification depend on the rules of just one company. That's just not how civilised spaces work.
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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 23/05/2026
A new report from Bloomberg explains why companies should move “from passive consumption to active stewardship” of the Open Source packages they rely on: “you cannot have sustainable code without sustaining the humans who write it (…) if you live in the house, you help fix the roof”.
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Open Source and the Iceberg Theory | Queue
Why “dependency management” isn’t enough anymoreThe traditional model of passive consumption is fundamentally unsustainable. In an era of AI-generated code and increasing supply-chain attacks, steward...
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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 20/05/2026
OSS burnout claims another project. On 2 Apr, an entitled user angrily asked the burned-out maintainer of nvim-treesitter to “go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people”. The maintainer replied “OK” — and archived the repo, stopping development of nvim-treesitter.
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Open Source Burnout Claims Another Project
Yet another OSS maintainer quits because of burnout. To fix this, we need better mental health resources for maintainers.
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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 13/05/2026
join the resistance 🏴‍☠️
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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 13/05/2026
Andrew has been building tools to understand the Open Source ecosystem for over a decade, and a new independent paper confirms the effectiveness of his approach to supporting maintainers. I want to celebrate his work today! 🎉
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 12/05/2026
Open Source maintainers need funding. But this means we also need to pay the researchers who create the very tools that allow companies to discover and pay the maintainers they depend on. Research on sustainability should itself be sustainable — otherwise, we'll struggle to get off the ground!
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 05/05/2026
Hello world! We're a non-profit research lab dedicated to ensuring the stability of the global Open Source ecosystem we all rely on.
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Software Stewardship Lab
A non-profit research lab dedicated to ensuring the stability of the global Open Source ecosystem we all rely on.
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