What have I been writing when I haven’t been writing here?

Duck Alignment Academy

• “Helping” versus being helpful — Every situation is different, so ask “would it be helpful if I _?” When you get agreement on your help, your work will be helpful.
• Volunteers can’t be blockers — Figure out the truly critical processes and accept that non-critical ones may get missed. Give critical processes to paid contributors.
• Companies: make sustainable contributions — We learned over the past year or two that corporate participation in an open source project is not guaranteed. The contributions a company makes need to be sustainable long after the company stops participating.
• Strategic use of bikeshedding — Painting a bike shed can be an excellent icebreaker when getting a group to review a document draft.

GUAC

• Mixing license information into your GUAC – GUAC v0.8.0 adds support for querying license data from ClearlyDefined.
• Help GUAC’s docs rock — The GUAC project needs documentation help. We’d love to have your contributions!
• August 2024 Community Meeting
• New schedule for GUAC Time office hours
• GUAC v0.8.1 released
• GUAC v0.8.2 released

Kusari

• Hack-Proof Artificial Intelligence Supply Chains Using Open Source Security (ghost write) — Practical ways to protect against AI software attacks
• Understanding prevalence is the first step — The federal government’s $11 million investment is a good start to understanding the impact of open source software.