Archive - Bold & Open

How to position an open project

The difference between becoming a viable alternative and being misunderstood

Apr 13 •

Jaime Arredondo

March 2025

The Community-Driven Marketing Journey: How to avoid missing potential customers and collaborations

In today’s article I’ll cover a problem I see most open source and community projects missing: Designing a marketing and community journey that attracts…

Mar 2 •

Jaime Arredondo

February 2025

What should become open source and what should stay proprietary?

What should be legitimately opened or closed? As a business, it’s hard to contemplate opening something when most forces push us to patent or protect…

Feb 2 •

Jaime Arredondo

January 2025

The radical power of Open source MedTech: The community creating affordable healthcare.

Here's how the Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²) found a way to dramatically lower costs with the goal of making health care available to people…

Jan 19 •

Jaime Arredondo

December 2024

How a musician's collective carves a pathway for platforms to be owned by their communities

It’s one of the greatest times to create an alternative to the monopolistic platforms we used to love but feel trapped by today.

Dec 8, 2024 •

Jaime Arredondo

October 2024

How Project Kamp is building a sustainable future in front of millions of people

In this week’s newsletter, I’ll show you how Dave Hakkens built several open movements to advance a regenerative vision for the tech and design world.

Oct 6, 2024 •

Jaime Arredondo

September 2024

How to share your innovations - without worrying about clones.

A quick take on how to build in public for open creators

Sep 22, 2024 •

Jaime Arredondo

June 2024

How Arduino empowers its community to contribute, and how this drives its business

Part Threee into how Arduino created a viral hardware product

Jun 9, 2024 •

Jaime Arredondo

May 2024

How Arduino designs and spreads virally an open product people love

Part Two into how Arduino created a viral hardware product

May 26, 2024 •

Jaime Arredondo

How Arduino set the foundation to create an open source movement

Part One into how Arduino created a viral hardware product

May 19, 2024 •

Jaime Arredondo

April 2024

Makair: How to solve a crisis by creating a low-cost ventilator in community?

How Makair developed in a month a ventilator that was 10 times cheaper than the existing offers by breaking down how they rallied a community around a…

Apr 14, 2024 •

Jaime Arredondo

March 2024

How to measure the ROI of open source communities

👋 Hey, it’s Jaime. Welcome to my weekly newsletter, where I share how thriving open-source projects grow their communities.

Mar 31, 2024 •

Jaime Arredondo

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