Scarf

scarf-js is now at 4M downloads per week and growing fast. This is your periodic reminder that when done properly, telemetry in open source is Good, actually.

Last call, join us for OSS Analytics 101 in 30 minutes! https://lnkd.in/gFxaj38s

Open Source Analytics 101 is happening tomorrow! If you're doing GTM at a developer tools company, and you're not using open source usage as a primary intent signal, this event is for you! Register for the free webinar here: https://lnkd.in/gfYh857P. We'll also have a special segment on OSS marketing and GTM from Matthew Trifiro, who brings deep OSS marketing experience from his days as CMO at Heroku, Mesosphere, and Vapor IO.

6 years has flown by in the blink of an eye! Thank you to everyone in the Scarf community for supporting our mission of enabling open source creators around the world to see the success they deserve.

Scarf's Go SDK is now available! Sending telemetry to Scarf from your golang code is now dead simple, and handling user opt-out is done automatically. If you're using Scarf for a golang project, we'd love to hear from you! https://lnkd.in/ghUMng7N

A reminder about our webinar coming up on October 16! Open Source Analytics 101 - Get up to speed on where the state of the art is in open source usage analytics. - Learn how cutting edge visibility into OSS usage can help your team run AI-enabled GTM playbooks of the fastest COSS companies. - Meet other open source GTM practitioners. - Ask us anything in open Q&A and office hours. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gfYh857P

If you care about open source sustainability, this is one of the most important developments of the year! https://lnkd.in/g_fSX2fk The major open source package registries from different programming languages and ecosystems teamed up to write an open letter calling for help in keeping open source infrastructure truly open to everyone. This letter highlights the sustainability challenges for this underrated but critically important layer of the open source world. Keeping this infrastructure running requires significant capital, and *someone* has to pay for that. The scale that these platforms deal with is truly impressive, but that scale quickly gets expensive. If you have ever used a package manager to install an open source library or application, you have the people behind this letter to thank, so this deserves your attention. What I am most amazed by here is actually less about the letter itself and more about the fact that these major package registries -- from Python to Java, Rust to PHP and beyond -- are starting to collaborate directly. Collectively, they have enormous leverage to align incentives between the big tech companies, maintainers, and the OSS ecosystem broadly. This is how real change will happen. For years, I've talked about the tremendous power and leverage that comes from the distribution channels for open source. Imagine the global chaos if these registries all went offline for even a single day. The software world would come to a crashing halt. If we want to avoid that, we have work to do! I'm excited to see how this progresses and how this can benefit the entire OSS community.

I meet with many developer tools companies that don't know that they can track open source usage at all, let alone how to build a pragmatic AI-powered GTM motion around it. The Scarf team and I are hosting a free webinar that covers the basics of both. I'll bring you up to speed on the state of the art in usage analytics for open source projects. Then we'll show you how to use that data to run GTM playbooks from some of the fastest growing OSS companies in history. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gfYh857P