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Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
4 days ago
- A small free-book exchange is built into a stone-framed arched niche in a pale yellow wall in Pistoia, Italy.
- The Little Free Library network includes 37,182 neighborhood libraries where people leave and take books.
- Several recently approved libraries are highlighted from locations such as Cleethorpes (GB), Habrough (GB), Ottawa (CA), Conewago Township/Hanover (US), and Abetone Cutigliano (IT).
Open-Sourcing Booklet
2 days ago
- The author built a smart newsletter for Moonlight's community, which had ten times more weekly active users than the website, highlighting the power of asynchronous communication.
- Booklet was created as a newsletter-first community software, coded in Ruby on Rails, using OpenAI's GPT-3 to summarize conversations into a daily digest.
- Booklet hosted various communities but faced challenges with spam and low adoption beyond the author's own communities, leading to its shutdown.
- The Booklet code is now open-sourced under MIT license, supporting Solo and Multiuser modes, with Docker and Render deployment options.
- The author hopes others will adopt Booklet's AI summarization techniques, emphasizing that newsletters often have more users than websites and should be prioritized.
1,500 Curl Authors
a day ago
- Curl development relies on a large community, not just a single maintainer.
- The maintainer no longer handles the majority of commits.
- The curl git repository now includes contributions from 1,500 people.
- It took 4.5 years to go from 1,000 to 1,500 contributors.
- The 1,500th contributor is Sameeh Jubran.
Calling all open source maintainers working with Ruby
5 hours ago
- A shared forum for Ruby users aims to reduce fragmentation and save project maintainers time.
- Critics warn of information duplication, spam, and centralization creating a single point of failure.
- Proponents argue the forum is not meant to replace all communication channels but to improve collaboration and reduce fragmentation.
- Maintainers can choose to participate or use their own alternatives; decentralization is respected.
- The forum will be a public, long-term space with easy migration of discussions in or out.

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Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots

Open-Sourcing Booklet

1,500 Curl Authors

Calling all open source maintainers working with Ruby