📰 Newsletters
Block Open Sourcery
Monthly open source newsletter spotlighting contributor milestones, new features, goose releases, and community highlights. Ran 6+ editions across GitHub Discussions and LinkedIn.
Goose Flight Log
Monthly newsletter highlighting goose team and community work, distributed via LinkedIn.
🎬 Videos
Meet Codename Goose 1.0
Produced and promoted the official goose 1.0 launch video, which reached 47K+ views and served as the primary introduction to the project for new developers.
TaniaCryptid YouTube Channel
Personal YouTube channel featuring tech content, community storytelling, and videos about AI, open source, and whatever else I feel like making.
✍️ Blog Posts
MCP Explained for Non-Developers
Breaking down the Model Context Protocol for non-technical audiences — one of the most-read posts in the goose blog.
goose is Celebrating Hacktoberfest 2025!
Launched and promoted goose's first-ever Hacktoberfest participation, including prizes, contribution tracking, and community rallying.
How I Used Goose to Rebuild My Website
A personal story about using goose to rebuild taniachakraborty.com — which, yes, is the site you're on right now.
How One Contribution Can Spark Many Wins
A contributor spotlight on how a small community fix turned into meaningful improvements across the goose project.
How ATrueLight4 Helped Goose Navigate Windows
Spotlight on a community contributor who stepped up to tackle Windows support — one of the most requested features at the time.
⭐ Community Programs & Open Source
Goose Community Reports
Interactive dashboards I built to track goose open source growth — GitHub stars, contributors, PRs, releases, Discord members, YouTube metrics, and social follower counts across all platforms. Built with goose.
Community All-Stars Program
Designed and shipped goose's monthly contributor recognition program — a repeatable, partly self-serve system with leaderboards, spotlights, and automated rankings that scaled with the community.
Hacktoberfest Leaderboard Automation
Built a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically updated the goose Hacktoberfest leaderboard hourly in October, scoring merged PRs so contributors could see real-time recognition.
Automated Community Rankings Script
Built and documented a script plus team-mapping data to generate monthly contributor leaderboards on demand, highlighting top external and internal contributors.
Block Open Source — OSS Critical Infrastructure Whitepaper
Led the launch of the "Open Source as Critical Infrastructure" whitepaper — creating the social header, coordinating blog timing, and distributing across Twitter and LinkedIn.
Goose CONTRIBUTING & README Overhaul
Expanded goose's contribution docs with concrete ways to participate — GitHub stars, feedback, community events, docs — reducing friction for newcomers and making it easier to get involved.