Approachable Open Source

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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

A screenshot of approachableopensource.com, opened to the newly available chapter. The Spectrum of Engagement is set behind a full-color-spectrum grid of squares resembling the GitHub contribution graph.
A quote from Approachable Open Source that reads, "All along the spectrum of engagement opportunity to work within open source lies. No type of work is of more value than another." At the bottom is the current pricing for the book, 9 dollars digital, 19 dollars paperback, 24 dollars bundled.
The email receipt from World Central Kitchen after donating $10 for each sale of Approachable Open Source made in the first month. The total reads $586.38, covering the $26.38 fees on $560 donated.
a quote by Abby Cabunoc Mayes on the back cover of Approachable Open Source by Brian Muenzenmeyer. The quote says, "the open source manual that maintainers have been waiting for." An image of the paperback copy next to an old iphone accompanies the quotation.
A quote from my book, Approachable Open Source. "Open source software is more than a license. Far more than free code. Open source software is code plus community. It’s a vibrancy and a sprawl and a fulcrum and a tool and a burden and a beacon. And it needs you."
A quotation from Approachable Open Source that stating: "Oscar Wilde was bullish on open source way back in 1892 when he wrote this dialog for Lady Windermere’s Fan : Cecil Graham: What is a cynic? Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. We’ll cover the many simple and complex costs associated with this medium. But don’t lose sight of the value too." This text is overlayed atop an image of some of the actors of the first production of Lady Windermere's fan, from the 1892 premiere: left to right, Ben Webster (Cecil Graham), Nutcombe Gould (Lord Darlington), Adolphus Vane-Tempest (Charles Dumby), H. H. Vincent (Lord Augustus Lorton) and George Alexander (Lord Windermere). The quote and picture takes on a bit of a meme-esque format, and is double-great cause it's a bunch of white dudes sitting around talking about shit.
The paperback copy of Approachable Open Source next to an old iphone sitting on a hardwood desk.