Approachable Open Source
By @bmuenzenmeyer.bsky.social, available at approachableopensource.com
Approachable Open Source is a perennial, full-spectrum primer on the open source software landscape.
Perfect for:
👩🎓 Students and 👩🏫 Teachers
💻 Maintainers
💼 Enterprise
Starter Packs
Created by Approachable Open Source (1)
Approachable Open Source Participants and Quoted
The book couldn't have become what it is today without the work and words of these people.
@staltz.com
JavaScript and open source guy. Working at @socket.dev Previously: Manyverse, SSB, Cycle.js, RxJS
@jordan.har.band
https://github.com/ljharb software engineer/nerd/teacher/will try anything once; surgeon with git rebase. @TC39 ex @Coinbase/@Airbnb/@Twitter/@MobBase. Fav punctuation ⸮, scent petrichor
@creativecommons.bsky.social
The nonprofit behind the licenses & tools the world uses to share 🌍
@splcenter.org
Catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements. splcenter.org
@coralineada.bsky.social
Internationally recognized tech ethicist, software engineer, & open source troublemaker. Author, "We Just Build Hammers". Creator, Contributor Covenant and Hippocratic License. Co-Founder, Organization for Ethical Source. Chair, Governance Futures Network.
@amandabrock.bsky.social
CEO @OpenUK, open source stuff - Advisory, Policy, Keynote, Writer, Exec Producer State of Open Con. Slave to #kittendundee AuDHD
@linustorvalds.bsky.social
@lea.verou.me
I make things that help people make things. Product Lead at Font Awesome. CSS WG Invited Expert, W3G TAG alumni. HCI PhD @ MIT. @leaverou@front-end.social on Mastodon, @leaverou elsewhere
@sindresorhus.com
Eat, code, love. I make Mac apps and open-source. https://sindresorhus.com/apps Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@sindresorhus X: https://x.com/sindresorhus
@handle.invalid
Mediocre middle-aged white man from Ireland living in Brighton, England working with Clearleft. I play traditional Irish music on mandolin and I play slide bouzouki in the band Salter Cane. https://adactio.com
@innersource.bsky.social
The community for InnerSource practitioners. www.innersourcecommons.org
@bigmediumjosh.bsky.social
Big Medium founder, Sentient Design co-author, design leader (AI, design systems, mobile, web, IoT); Couch to 5K creator; Maine's 11th strongest man.
@davatron5000.bsky.social
Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.
@sustainoss.bsky.social
@swyx.io
i want everyone to aspire to integrity, intensity, and intentionality. see also @latent.space
@jensimmons.bsky.social
Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & Webkit. #PwME
@danmall.bsky.social
@aworkinglibrary.com
Thinking about reading, work, and technology. Now helping people do their best work at everythingchanges.us. Posting from https://aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/. I log in about once a week.
@openssf.org
Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) http://openssf.org Together, we're securing the #opensource ecosystem #OSSsecurity
@ksylor.bsky.social
Principal Frontend Engineer at Square, formerly Etsy. Fairy Gitmother at ohshitgit.com. Thoughts are mine not my employer’s #GNUTerryPratchett
@hacktoberfest.com
The official account for #Hacktoberfest 💻, a month-long celebration of open-source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors. 💙
@opensource.org
The steward of the Open Source Definition, the foundation of the modern software ecosystem. We build a world where the freedoms and opportunities of Open Source software can be enjoyed by all. #OpenSource
@linuxfoundation.org
A nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source. #linux #kubernetes #riscv #hyperledger #anuket #openssf #openjs #o3de and more!
@11ty.dev
🎈 A simpler static site generator 🔗 https://www.11ty.dev/ 🐀 Created/maintained by @zachleat.com (this account, too) 📦 Team HTML/Jamstack 🤝 Team @fontawesome.com 🐘 Mastodon https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy
@nodejs.org
@allthingsopen.bsky.social
A universe of events and platforms focused on open source, open tech and the open web. #AllThingsOpen
@zachleat.com
🌍 https://zachleat.com 🎈🐀 Creator/Maintainer of @11ty.dev 🧰 Builder at @fontawesome.com 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 👋🏻 He/him/they 🐘 https://zachleat.com/@zachleat 🐟 out of 🌊 ✅ Front of the Front-end ✅ Static Sites 🚾 Web Components ✅ Web Perf
@scottjehl.com
Web Designer/Dev. Accessibility & Performance Fan. Mediocre surfer. My new web components course https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/ scottjehl.com
@flaviocopes.com
I run a coding bootcamp at https://bootcamp.dev. Programming tutorials (and free coding books) at https://flaviocopes.com
@whitep4nth3r.com
✦ I write code for your entertainment twitch.tv/whitep4nth3r ⮕ Head of Developer Education at @nordcraft.com ⭑ GitHub Star, Microsoft MVP ⦿ Manchester, UK ▨ Enter the weird wide web hole: whitep4nth3r.com/newsletter
@maggieappleton.com
Design engineer exploring applied AI and hacky prototypes. Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology. 📍 London 🌱 maggieappleton.com
@jessitron.bsky.social
Symmathecist, in the medium of code. Software, systems thinking, observability, process philosophy, enactivism. She/her
@xkcd.com
@zeldman.bsky.social
Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, Designing With Web Standards & Taking Your Talent to the Web. Founder & Publisher, @alistapart.com. Formerly also A Book Apart, An Event Apart, Happy Cog, SVA MFA IXD faculty. zeldman.link
@wil.to
I’m https://wil.to I make https://multipa.ge I wrote https://web.dev/learn/javascript and https://web.dev/learn/images
@brianmuenzenmeyer.com
📗 Author, @approachableopensource.com 🎪 Sneelock of the Circus 🤹 @nodejs.org website maintainer 🦆 Rough cut woodworker 🎯 OSPO at Target 👨🏻🦲 Views my own. He/Him