How to Bridge the Disconnect Between the Potential and Reality of Online Community Software Even today, as companies and membership organizations build branded online communities for their customers ...

The fun and games in the world of commercial open source software never stop. In the latest episodes of a long-winding saga, two more commercial open source vendors, Elastic and Grafana, changed their ...

Open source software (OSS) projects represent a transformative model of software development, underpinned by distributed communities that contribute to continuous innovation and sustainability. These ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Community Labs has raised $30 million to power software development and a venture studio focused on supporting Arweave adoption, ecosystem growth, and protocol development.

Building and harnessing online communities has been a major driving force behind some of the world’s largest platforms, from Stripe and Slack to Figma and Notion. At the heart of the ...

Nearly 250 students representing 53 universities completed 68 innovative software projects during the WildHacks 2026 event ...

Common Room cofounders Tom Kleinpeter (left), Viraj Mody, Francis Luu and CEO Linda Lian are building a startup focused on community management for businesses. Linda Lian believes the next generation ...

It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. The common thesis was that Red Hat was a snowflake and that ...

Michael Dolan has a great post exploring the differences between commercial-led open source and community-led open source. The impetus for his muse is the brouhaha ...

HANOI, Vietnam--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Marking its 25th anniversary, FPT Software has unveiled the "Happy Giga Run 2024" campaign, an ambitious initiative aimed at uniting its global workforce under the ...

Free and open source software enables the world as we know it in 2019. From Web servers to kiosks to the big data algorithms mining your Facebook feed, nearly every computer system you interact with ...