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Blogs

January 28, 2022

Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses

Podcasts

August 3, 2022

Who's Looking At Your GitHub Project? | Avi Press of Scarf | The Secret Sauce Podcast

External News

March 4, 2023

Where Does Open Source Fit into Russia’s War with Ukraine?

Podcasts

February 21, 2023

What's happening with all these Tech Layoffs? Is the Economy Finally Impacting Open Source? Ep15

Podcasts

February 5, 2023

Top 5 Open Source Predictions 2023

Podcasts

May 17, 2023

The Story of Apache Pulsar and StreamNative through Sijie Guo's Perspective - EP 28 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast 5/11/2023

Conference Talks

June 7, 2023

Tips and best practices for growing open source adoption

Conference Talks

February 20, 2023

The Villains Guide to How to Lose Your Community | Matt Yonkovit | SOOCon23 Government & Law

Podcasts

May 12, 2023

The ReadME Podcast: Balancing openness and control

Podcasts

October 5, 2022

The Heroic Labs Open Source Journey: Moving their Business from Proprietary to Open Source - EP 2 | The Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

July 22, 2023

The Complexity of Open Source Business: ReactFlow, Ethical Licensing and Growth with John Robb - EP 31 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Quotes

February 6, 2023

The Future For Open Source

Podcasts

April 20, 2023

The Power of Community in Open Source Business - Lessons from Bagisto's Co-Founder Saurav Pathak - EP 25 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Conference Talks

February 7, 2023

The Open Source Business Guidebook - From FOSDEM 2023

Podcasts

June 8, 2022

Scarf with Avi Press - Contributor Podcast

Blogs

July 20, 2022

Stefano Maffulli: An Exploration on Standards for Open Source Packaging and Distribution

Podcasts

January 11, 2023

The Best Way to Measure your Open Source Community with Georg Link - EP 11 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

March 5, 2021

SustainOSS Episode 70: Avi Press and Scarf

Podcasts

November 22, 2022

Talking Tigris Data, a New Open Source Developer Data Platform with Ovais Tariq - EP 6 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

External News

March 3, 2021

Scarf Systems aims to give developers more control of their open-source software

External News

December 15, 2021

Scarf Takes Total Funding to $7.3M for its Sophisticated Approach to Open-Source Analytics

Quotes

March 3, 2021

Scarf Shifts Open-Source Power Dynamics With Launch of the Scarf Gateway

External News

December 16, 2021

Scarf Takes Total Funding To $7.3M For Its Approach To Open Source Analytics

Blogs

August 1, 2023

Scarf open source leader: Why metrics matter

External News

March 3, 2021

Scarf helps open-source developers track how their projects are being used

External News

November 13, 2024

Scarf Integrates Platform for Tracking Open Source Software Usage With Salesforce

External News

April 6, 2021

Scarf Helps Track Use of Open Source Projects

External News

March 3, 2021

Scarf Gateway Tracks Open Source Software Usage

External News

January 3, 2022

San Francisco California Based Scarf Systems is Raising $7,354,989.00 in New Equity Investment

External News

March 3, 2021

Scarf Exits Stealth Mode, Launches Scarf Gateway

External News

April 16, 2024

Scarf Announces Integration With Common Room, Empowering Organizations With Signals From Open-Source Usage

External News

March 3, 2021

Scarf exits stealth with analytics tools that help open source developers get paid

Podcasts

February 1, 2023

Reaching People & Building Community in the Open Source & Kubernetes Ecosystem with Bart Farrell - EP 12 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

External News

May 5, 2023

Russia tops national leagues in open source downloads

Podcasts

October 19, 2022

Open Source VC Funding: Insider View from Joseph Jacks (OSS Capital) - EP 3 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

December 21, 2022

Random Open Source News: Funding, Layoffs, Bugs, and Fortune Cookies - EP 9 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Blogs

May 9, 2022

Python Wheels vs Eggs (And How Data-Driven Decisions Must Become The Norm in Open-Source)

Quotes

July 3, 2023

Red Hat: Distro vendors must abide by enterprise agreements amid source code ‘furor’

Podcasts

February 23, 2023

Open Source, Sovereign Cloud, & Business with Nextcloud Founder & CEO Frank Karlitschek - EP 16 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

March 15, 2023

Open Source: Sales, Metrics, & Commercialization Strategies - EP 19 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

External News

March 8, 2021

Open source initiative to help developers measure product usage

Blogs

June 29, 2023

Open Source Metrics: How to track GitHub wiki pages, Github discussion pages, and GitHub docs pages

Blogs

August 29, 2023

Open Source Metrics: Fear & Loathing (Part 2) - DevRel Weekly

Blogs

August 11, 2023

Open Source Projects and Community Lifecycles

Podcasts

January 5, 2023

Open Source In Govt, Software Curation, Security with Amanda Brock - EP 10 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

March 30, 2023

Open Source, Developer Retention, Community Over Revenue: with Appsmith Founder Nikhil Nandagopal - EP 20 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

February 28, 2023

Open Source Deep Dive with Peter Zaitsev: Adoption, Event Strategy, Government Regulation, & Licensing - EP 17 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Blogs

January 3, 2023

Open Source Business Metrics Guide: How to Build, Grow, and Measure the Success of an Open Source Business

Podcasts

February 8, 2023

Open Source Go to Market Strategies, Embracing Community, & Growing Government Use with Ian Tien - EP 13 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

April 28, 2023

Open Source Adoption, DevRel, and FOSS: with Patrick McFadin - EP 26 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

August 10, 2022

Open Source Analytics With Scarf - Avi Press, Scarf and Open Source Insights - FLOSS Weekly Podcast

Podcasts

February 16, 2021

OCS 2020 Breakout: Avi Press, Founder and CEO of Scarf

Blogs

September 6, 2023

On Business Models (Part 2)

Podcasts

November 8, 2022

Messaging & Positioning an Open Source Product: How to Figure out if your Open Source Project Sucks with Emily Omier - EP 4 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

March 8, 2022

Measuring Open-Source Adoption

Podcasts

March 30, 2023

MariaDB Foundation CEO Kaj Arnö on Open Source Sustainability and the Role of Foundations - EP 21 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

January 26, 2022

Making Data Transparent and Accessible with Avi Press

Podcasts

July 18, 2023

In Open Source Startups, Culture Trumps Everything | Matt Yonkovit

Podcasts

November 1, 2021

Junior to Senior Podcast: Avi Press - Founder & CEO at Scarf

Podcasts

December 20, 2022

How do you know if your Project is Any Good? - Emily Omier & Avi Press

Podcasts

April 12, 2023

Investment, Impact & Open Source: Striking the Balance in Large Corporations - EP 24 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

November 9, 2021

Haskell in Production: Scarf - Serokell

External News

August 16, 2023

How Open Source startups can win investors with community traction

External News

December 16, 2021

How Scarf helps developers measure and commercialize open source software

Quotes

August 11, 2023

HashiCorp's new license is still open source-ish, just with less free lunch

External News

May 1, 2024

Fortune 100 Companies Increasingly Turning to Smallstep's Open Source Software

Quotes

August 11, 2023

HashiCorp drops open source for 'source available'

Podcasts

February 15, 2023

From Mesos to Kubernetes: Talking Open Source with D2iQ Founder Ben Hindman - EP 14 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

September 27, 2022

Dropping Open Source for the BSL? - EP 1 | The Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Blogs

July 25, 2023

DevRel Resources for your Boss

Podcasts

May 4, 2023

DevRel in Open Source - Strategies, Challenges, and Growth with Joe Karlsson - EP 27 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

February 25, 2022

Gathering Open Source Usage Data with Avi Press - CHAOSS Podcast

Podcasts

June 1, 2023

DevRel: Winning the hearts and minds of Developer with Laurent Doguin from Couchbase - EP 30 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Conference Talks

February 4, 2023

Building External Evangelists: What should be the primary goal of every community team

Podcasts

December 14, 2022

DevRel, Contributors, Metrics, & Open Sauced with Brian Douglas - EP 8 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

July 1, 2022

Data Collection, Download Metrics, and Scarf - Percona Database Podcast 77 with Avi Press

Podcasts

April 6, 2023

Building Communities & Scaling Open Source Startups with Jana Iris - EP 22 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Blogs

July 5, 2023

Building a Sustainable Open Source Project

Podcasts

November 16, 2022

Chatting Copilot, Tech Layoffs, Open Source, and More - EP 5 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Quotes

May 15, 2023

A technology downturn and mass layoffs are having competing effects on FOSS

Podcasts

March 9, 2023

Building a Bootstrapped Open Source Company: Insights from Jetstack Founder & President, Matt Barker - EP 18 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

November 30, 2022

Bootstrapping your Startup, Stepping down as CEO, What's Next In Open Source with Peter Zaitsev - EP 7 | Hacking Open Source Business Podcast

Podcasts

May 2, 2023

An Interview With Avi Press of Scarf

Quotes

August 14, 2023

Analysis: HashiCorp prioritizes its business with BSL license switch, but community upset cannot be ignored

Conference Talks

March 22, 2022