Here's the two-hundred third issue of COSS Weekly, the global commercial open source (COSS) company category newsletter, brought to you every weekend by the team at OSS Capital, creators and stewards of COSS Community and Open Core Summit.
We deliver only the most fresh 😋 news from the previous week in COSS across: Funding, Content, Jobs, Liquidity and $COSS (Public Markets).
Last week saw JJ arrive in India (live event on Nov 13th in Bangalore!), a partnership between Layer3 and ResearchHub, news from Plane and Godot, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS Funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "Nostalgic and awesome to read this post ... we discovered @Hoppscotch_io (led founding seed 3 years ago) on @ThePracticalDev (our first ever investment at @OSSCapital over 6 years ago). Many millions of developers later (on both platforms)..." Link
OpenBB: "Welcome to the team, Ihsan Our new Head of Quant Research shared that joining OpenBB "feels like staring at the groundwork of a new skyscraper that will be the talk of the city over the next decades. It feels refreshing." We couldn't be more excited that he's joining us on this journey. Stay tuned for Ihsan's first blog post next week!" Link
JJ: "Very pleased with rate of progress at @maybe: the OS for your personal finances. v0.1.0 landed recently --- fully open source and written in Ruby: github.com/maybe-finance/..." Link
Jamie Pine: "Imagine working @spacedriveapp" Link
JJ: "Open source startups are taking over!" Link
JJ: "Headed to India for the second time this year and extremely excited to spend quality time and visit with the superstar founders of @planepowers, @hoppscotch_io, @juspay, @zerodhaonline and @browserstack." Link
Plane: "30K GitHub stars giveaway alert! Our community, AKA you, has led us so far so early, and here's our little token of appreciation for it. We are giving away ten $200 gift cards + exclusive Plane swag. To participate, Like and retweet Star our GitHub repository Tag three people who should check out Plane Announcing winners on Nov 15, 2024, so go, go, go!" Link
JJ: "In Bangalore ? Join me next Wednesday on November 13th at 4PM local time to learn about the latest developments in open source decentralized and incentivized AI lu.ma/9lae29pq" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "wow @calcom users have earned $2.5M with paid bookings so far connect @stripe to your account (app.cal.com/apps/stripe) and charge for your time! cal.com/scheduling/fea..." Link
JJ: "Launch week for @planepowers is here! I could not be more excited to celebrate this momentous time with the founders @viharkurama and @vamsi_kurama in person during my second trip to India. plane.so/launch-week" Link
JJ: "What comes next after open source software? Open source hardware. Open source pharmaceuticals. Open source biology / genetics. Open source government." Link
Open Source Initiative @osi@opensource.org: "Although it originates with the phrase "open source software", today "open source" is itself a unique lexeme. opensource.org/blog/is-open-s..." Link
JJ: "Awesome talk by @godotengine creators Ariel + @reduzio on their journey so far ... youtu.be/hKLl03A9Kws" Link
Sid Sijbrandij: "A common question that people ask: What is the difference between open source and open core? Open-source and open-core software are related but not the same. Open source means that all of the code, the blueprints essentially, are available for anyone to use and contribute to for free. Open core is a model or license in which some parts of the software are free and some are paid. At companies like GitLab and those that we start through Open Core Ventures, we try to strike that balance between software that everyone can use for free and parts that are proprietary. This makes the software sustainable by allowing us to make improvements and updates, maintain security and performance, and provide a better experience for our customers and community. youtu.be/lfdXUq6y5GA" Link
Katie Keith: "One positive thing I've learned about Automattic amongst all the chaos is that they really do put their money where their mouth is and contribute to other open source projects which they benefit from - not just WordPress." Link
Liyas Thomas: "We did it @hoppscotch_io has reached 65,000 stars on GitHub. A huge THANK YOU to our amazing community and contributors who made this possible." Link
Spacedrive: "We are working very hard on v0.5. This graphic is a little ahead, currently we *will be the best file manager in the world. The way this update is coming along we might just be very soon..." Link
Layer3: "We're excited to announce our partnership with ResearchHub to support their mission of accelerating scientific research. We believe in open-source principles and their crucial role in addressing challenges in academic research. Explore the latest @ResearchHub campaign on Layer3. Let's accelerate science." Link
Tom Dörr: ""Open Source JIRA, Linear, Monday, and Asana Alternative. Plane helps you track your issues, epics, and product roadmaps in the simplest way possible."" Link
Godot Engine: "After a slight delay due to #GodotCon and the yearly contributor meeting we are back with a feature-packed update including the much-requested interactive in-game editing mode! #godot #godotengine godotengine.org/article/dev-sn..." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,745 jobs and 327 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 8.67% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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