Leaving a great job to be a full-time open source maintainer might seem like a hard choice—but for Henry, it was the easiest hard choice he ever made. Learn more at The ReadME Project from GitHub.
The struggles of an open source maintainer - <antirez>
What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer
Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…
What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer
Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…
I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer
It works! I am now a full-time independent open-source maintainer. I'm announcing my first cohort of six clients, and sharing some details of how the model works.
The Missing Middle of Open Source
Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.
Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer
A rare opportunity to make a real impact in a fast-paced, high-visibility role.
A big shout-out to open source
Yoast lives and breathes open source. Here Joost explains why and more. Find out who Joost's all-time open source hero is!
Open Source Resistance
A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.
Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
Open Source software runs the Internet, and by extension the economy. This is an undisputed fact about reality in 2021. And yet, the role of Open Source maintainer has failed to mature from a hobby into a proper profession.
Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.
Everything an open source maintainer might need to know about open source licensing | Ben Balter
There's lots of internet lore around open source licensing. An attorney and open source developer answers the most common questions.
Maintainer spotlight: Siân Griffin
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Sean Griffin.
It's time to pay the maintainers
Or, what Voltron can teach us about improving open source development.
