Four Types of Open Source Blogs

News Blogs

Open Sourc comminities use blogs to share news and information mainly with existing contributors and members. These blogs often contain upcoming events, reflections on prior events, provide updates on code, and other information that supports the network connections.

 

Mirror Blogs

Mirror blogs focus on an open source contrinutoprs reflections on their own thinking. A blogger documents how their thinking abouta topic got influenced and changed over time.

 

Showcase Blogs

This type of blog is used to showcase community members, code, art projects, podcasts, and writing.

 

Release  Blogs

Similar to traditional press release but often the most shared posts. These blogs just contain change logs written with greater prose than those captures in a GitHub repo

This list adapted from (Zawilinski, 2009)