I can't breathe 😂 Credits: @teabass nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incide…

🎙️ new episode with @teabass! 👏 Andrew builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He’s been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with @librariesio and now with @ecosyste_ms , which tracks over 12 million packages, 287 million repos, 24.5 billion dependencies, and 1.9 million maintainers. What has Andrew learned from all this, who is using this open dataset, and how does he hope others can build on top of it all? Tune in to find out. 👇

🚀 We're launching OpenClimate.Fund, a community-driven initiative to support open source projects that address climate change and biodiversity loss. These are among the most pressing challenges of our time, yet open source efforts in these areas remain alarmingly underfunded. While significant resources are being spent on areas such as artificial intelligence and security, the environmental sector is largely left empty-handed when it comes to open source solutions. It's time to change that. 🌉 OpenClimate.Fund aims to bridge this gap by funding an ecosystem built on transparency, trust, and collaboration to advance climate-friendly technologies and measurable environmental impact. 🤔 What can you do? In our first funding round, we’re introducing a “positive snowball system" to empower the community and drive meaningful change. Here’s what you can do: 1️⃣ Identify a high impact project missing in the OpenSustaintech directory. 2️⃣ Submit it through our review process using the Contributing Guide on opensustaintech, which outlines the steps for nominating impactful open source initiatives. 3️⃣ Nominate another project from the opensustaintech funding directory to receive a 100€ funding. 💰 The first funding round distributes 10,000€ in this manner. 👉 Preparing for Round 2 We believe that investing in the right open source projects creates a cascading effect accelerating sustainable transformation. We can not rely on black-box knowledge, because the decisions we make today are so critical. That’s why this first funding round is just the beginning. Our goal is to evaluate and maximize the impact of individual projects. 🫴 Join Us in Disrupting the Status Quo Visit OpenClimate.Fund today to learn more, nominate projects and spread the word with Hashtag Hashtag#openclimatefund 🙏 Thanks to @teabass from @ecosyste_ms, Benjamin Nickolls from @OpenSourceColl , Tobias Augspurger from @protontypes and @richlitt from @SustainOSS to make this project happen! 🌐 Read the full blog post on OpenSustainTech: opensustain.tech/blog/opencl…

How can we gauge the real-world impact of open-source software? 💻🌍 Join @teabass from @Ecosyste_ms at #FtCBerkeley for a deep dive into assessing and enhancing the value and influence of open-source projects. 👉 Register for Apr 13-14, SF: lu.ma/FtCSF2024

Octobox.io is down right now for a quick bit of emergency maintainence, won't be long, sorry for the inconvenience!

Here's our 2023 End of Year Update: opencollective.com/ecosystem…

We just launched ClimateTriage.com, a platform helping you to contribute to #opensource projects focused on climate technology and sustainability. Start making your first meaningful contribution to #climatechange, #sustainable #energy, #biodiversity and natural resources.

We're moving to Mastodon: mastodon.social/@24pullreque…

Network failure at the @octoboxio host this morning, so may be down for an hour or so, sorry!

Thanks to ecosyste.ms and @teabass 's outstanding support, we've seen a massive increase in new projects discoved in environmental sustainability. Instead of stars, we have found better criteria for identifying high-impact projects. #opensource #Sustainability

Last week we published a huge batch of open data releases: blog.ecosyste.ms/2023/08/24/…

We're on Mastodon as well now: mastodon.social/@ecosystems

We're excited to be back! And the CFP is finally open. Check out our new website at packaging-con.org with all the details – we can't wait to welcome software package management aficionados in Berlin in October.

After a year of work, @ecosyste_ms now indexes more packages than @librariesio It's been a long journey for @teabass and I since our work on Libraries but Ecosystems is already powering the next generation of researchers, policymakers and application developers in open source ✌️

Just noticed a huge bump in packages published to npm yesterday, one user published over 43,000 new packages! npmjs.com/~jfeifieikkjdkejde… Looks like just spam, they are just readmes with telegram links, but kinda wild that there's no limits on the npm registry to that kind of spam.

Dawn (@geekygirldawn) shares the importance of mentoring the next wave of maintainers while Andrew (@teabass) talks about his history with 24 Pull Requests, Libraries.io, and Ecosyste.ms (github.com/ecosyste-ms). Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/159

Socket's partnership with Ecosystems is a natural fit. We both care about improving the relationship between OSS users and producers and addressing the key challenges faced by the OSS community, such as package security, funding, and sustainability. socket.dev/blog/socket-ecosy…

🎉 Exciting news! ❤️ @SocketSecurity is partnering with the Ecosyste.ms project! Their work already helped us ship Python. Now we want to give back support shared infrastructure for researchers/policymakers/devs to secure  sustain OSS. ⬇️ Learn more

Ho ho ho, it is that time of year again🤶🎅🎄 #oss