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	2025-05-28
State of Open Con Keynote: Open Source Data Updates	2025-02-04
Open Source Summit: What Information are Package & Container Registries Hiding From You?	2024-04-18
Open Source Summit: Lessons from 1 Billion OSS Downloads	2024-04-17
Analytics are Starting to Win in Open Source	2024-02-29
Let's Help Org Mode Escape From Emacs	2024-01-15
Call for Haskell Libraries	2023-12-29
Why Haskell is a Terrible Choice For Startups (And Why We Picked It Anyway)	2023-12-07
How Do You Know if Your Project is Any Good? (All Things Open)	2022-11-02
FLOSS Weekly Podcast	2022-08-10
The Secret Sauce: Who's Looking At Your GitHub Project? (YouTube)	2022-08-03
Percona's HOSS Talks FOSS Podcast	2022-07-01
Distribution and the Economics of Open-Source Software (Forbes)	2022-06-01
PyCon 2022 Talk - Beyond the Download Count: Understanding the Usage of your Public Python Packages	2022-04-29
Open Source Startup Podcast: Understanding Your Open Source Usage with Scarf	2022-04-07
Uniting To Act On Untapped Leverage: How Open-Source Maintainers Can Work Together And Prioritize Long-Term Sustainability (Forbes)	2022-04-06
Cloud Native Containers Meetup - Beyond the Download: Understanding the Usage of Your Public Containers	2022-03-22
Scarf Will Block Package Downloads from the Russian Government	2022-03-02
CHAOSSCast:Gathering Open Source Usage Data with Avi Press	2022-02-25
Cloud Native Startup Podcast: Making Data Transparent and Accessible	2022-01-26
Serokell Blog Interview: Haskell in Production @ Scarf	2021-11-09
Measuring Downloads of Anything You Distribute	2021-09-03
Committing to Cloud Native Podcast: Analytics for Open Source Maintainers with Avi Press	2021-06-28
My interview on the Console Newsletter	2021-05-02
Sustain OSS Podcast: Avi Press and Scarf	2021-03-05
Announcing The Scarf Gateway	2021-03-03
Open Core Summit: Fireside Chat with Joseph Jacks on OSS Analytics	2020-12-16
Are Package Registries Holding Open-Source Hostage?	2020-11-11
Analytics and Open Source Sustainability	2020-07-09
Introduction to Parsers in Haskell (slides)	2019-09-01
A Failed Effort to Get Paid for an Open Source Project	2019-05-29
Easy Database Access with Haskell and postgresql-simple	2017-08-25
Caching Algorithms and Rational Models of Memory	2014-05-01

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