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Maintaining the maintainers: supporting open source tools

on YouTube 36m
Talkat GitHub Satellite 2019 · on Thursday, 2019-05-23· [open-source, devrel-and-community]

speakers

name:Don Goodman-Wilson
github:degoodmanwilson
name:Floor Drees
website:https://floor.dev
name:K Rain Leander
bluesky:rainleander.bsky.social

resources

video:https://youtu.be/bFNqaoHSUIQ
slides:none on file

summary

Panel debates whether formal support — accelerators, company sponsorships or program offices — actually sustains maintainers or just creates corporate capture; attendees report GitHub Sponsors exists but raises burnout and duty pressure, Maintainerati meets (three past gatherings, sold out) and struggles with disappearing notes so it pilots an anthropologist and documentation-first approach, and concrete remedies proposed include office hours/mentorship for maintainers, a business-model advisory and clearer open source program office roles.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Introductions and goals
  2. 1:47Personal paths to open source
  3. 6:04Barriers and burnout
  4. 11:20The role of institutions
  5. 16:57Redefining open source
  6. 22:34Diversity and inclusion
  7. 27:42Future for maintainers

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