What the fork?

Welcome to Forkable, a weekly newsletter covering the world of open source, curated by London-based technology journalist Paul Sawers.

A bit about me: I’ve evolved from writing about consumer tech at The Next Web, through a hybrid consumer and enterprise beat at VentureBeat, and onto TechCrunch where I was Senior Writer focused on European technology startups with a distinctly enterprise flavour.

You can see my Techmeme headlines spanning 14 years here.

I have increasingly found myself reading, discussing, thinking, and writing about the myriad moving parts that make up the software ecosystem, and open source is never far from the conversation. So I figured why not keep a record of all the goings-on in a newsletter?

Forkable goes out each Friday, serving a summary of all the big topics and talking points — this might be new product launches; startup funding rounds; licensing shenanigans; and all the rest. While software is the core focus, Forkable will include other notable tidbits where “open” is a central facet of the story — that means AI and hardware will be firmly on the agenda too.

Additionally, I write a weekly story as part of my COSS Corner segment, where I profile startups and key figures from the commercial open source software (COSS) space.

This newsletter is a personal project, one that will evolve over time as I figure out what works, and what doesn’t.

If you want to get in touch, email me on: forkable[at]pm.me.