Avi Press

About me

• Founder and CEO of Scarf, a company focused on open source usage analytics. We process over 2 billion of open source package downloads every day.
• Open source maintainer and advocate.
• Functional programming enthusiast. I'm serving on the Haskell Foundation board, as well as the Haskell.org committee.
• Former engineer at Pandora
• Based in Oakland, California

Contact

• Follow me on Twitter, Github, or even Bluesky
• I hold open office hours for anyone that you can book with me here, no prior confirmation from me required.
• Email: mail@avi.press

Content

Open Source Success: Lessons from 1(0) Billion Downloads	2025
State of Open Con Keynote: Open Source Data Updates
Open Source Summit: What Information are Package & Container Registries Hiding From You?	2024
Open Source Summit: Lessons from 1 Billion OSS Downloads
Analytics are Starting to Win in Open Source
Let's Help Org Mode Escape From Emacs
Call for Haskell Libraries	2023
Why Haskell is a Terrible Choice For Startups (And Why We Picked It Anyway)
How Do You Know if Your Project is Any Good? (All Things Open)	2022
FLOSS Weekly Podcast
The Secret Sauce: Who's Looking At Your GitHub Project? (YouTube)
Percona's HOSS Talks FOSS Podcast
Distribution and the Economics of Open-Source Software (Forbes)
PyCon 2022 Talk - Beyond the Download Count: Understanding the Usage of your Public Python Packages
Open Source Startup Podcast: Understanding Your Open Source Usage with Scarf
Uniting To Act On Untapped Leverage: How Open-Source Maintainers Can Work Together And Prioritize Long-Term Sustainability (Forbes)
Cloud Native Containers Meetup - Beyond the Download: Understanding the Usage of Your Public Containers
Scarf Will Block Package Downloads from the Russian Government
CHAOSSCast:Gathering Open Source Usage Data with Avi Press
Cloud Native Startup Podcast: Making Data Transparent and Accessible
Serokell Blog Interview: Haskell in Production @ Scarf	2021
Measuring Downloads of Anything You Distribute
Committing to Cloud Native Podcast: Analytics for Open Source Maintainers with Avi Press
My interview on the Console Newsletter
Sustain OSS Podcast: Avi Press and Scarf
Announcing The Scarf Gateway
Open Core Summit: Fireside Chat with Joseph Jacks on OSS Analytics	2020
Are Package Registries Holding Open-Source Hostage?
Analytics and Open Source Sustainability
Introduction to Parsers in Haskell (slides)	2019
A Failed Effort to Get Paid for an Open Source Project
Easy Database Access with Haskell and postgresql-simple	2017
Caching Algorithms and Rational Models of Memory	2014

About this site

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