This week we’re celebrating Maintainer Month along with our friends at GitHub. Open source runs the world, but who runs open source? Maintainers. Open source maintainers are behind the software we use everyday, but they don’t always have the community or support they need. That’s why we’re celebrating open source maintainers during the month of May. Today’s conversation features Alyssa Wright (Bloomberg), Chad Whitacre (Sentry), and Duane O’Brien (Creator of the FOSS Contributor Fund and framework). We get into all the details, the why, the hows, and the struggles involved for companies to support open source.
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We’re at Open Source Summit North America 2022 this week. If you’re there, come see us at the Maintainer Month booth in the expo area.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) - Maintainer Month!!
(01:37) - Sponsor: Sentry
(03:53) - Start the show!
(07:46) - We're DevRel for the software community
(10:30) - The FOSS Contributor Fund
(14:01) - $2k per engineer to open source
(16:05) - Bloomberg's FOSS Fund
(19:12) - Corporate philanthropy at Bloomberg
(21:41) - The unique advantage to fund OSS
(23:22) - Sponsor: Rocky Linux
(25:59) - It's common sense, not philanthropy
(30:21) - Something over nothing
(33:51) - Chad, "stir up that pot."
(37:19) - By and for the people
(43:24) - Non-funding things
(49:12) - Sponsor: DevCycle
(51:48) - It begins with people who care
(1:00:12) - We appreciate maintainers!
(1:06:48) - This is an ongoing conversation
(1:08:25) - Up next week...
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