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Talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer

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Maintainer tales

Collects stories and insights from experienced software maintainers about their experiences in managing and contributing to open source projects.

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@alyssais

  • video

    "Why I helped maintain Homebrew" ( )

@amjith

  • video

    "Maintainer Stories: Amjith Ramanujam" ( )

@antirez

  • post

    "The struggles of an open source maintainer" ( )

@ariya

  • interview

    "Maintainer Stories: Ariya Hidayat" ( )

@ashfurrow

  • slides

    "Building Open Source Communities" ( )

@bbatsov

  • post

    "Interview with Bozhidar Batsov: The Creator’s Thoughts on RuboCop and the Ruby Style Guide" ( )

@boneskull

  • interview

    "Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout" ( )

@brettcannon

  • video

    "The give and take of open source" ( )

  • interview

    "Maintainer Stories: Brett Cannon" ( )

  • post

    "Setting expectations for open source participation" ( )

  • post

    "Why I took October off from OSS volunteering" ( )

@brianc

  • interview

    "Creating and maintaining node-postgres solo" ( )

@BurntSushi

  • post

    "My FOSS Story" ( )

@ceejbot

  • video

    "The economics of open source" ( , )

@colcarroll

@ctb

  • paper

    "Channeling Community Contributions to Scientific Software: A Sprint Experience" ( )

  • paper

    "Walking the Talk: Adopting and Adapting Sustainable Scientific Software Development processes in a Small Biology Lab" ( )

@danielbachhuber

  • interview

    "Experiments and the Economics of Open Source" ( )

  • video

    "My condolences, you're now the maintainer of a popular open source project" ( , )

@danvet

  • video

    "Maintainers Don't Scale" ( , , )

  • video

    "Burning Down the Castle" ( , )

@dhh

  • video

    "Open source beyond the market" ( , )

@dominictarr

  • post

    "Statement on event-stream compromise" ( )

@emilyemorehouse

  • video

    "My Path to Becoming a Python Core Developer" ( )

@ericholscher

  • video

    "Maintainer Stories: Eric Holscher" ( )

  • post

    "The post I never published" ( )

@evancz

  • video

    "The Hard Parts of Open Source" ( , )

  • video

    "On Storytelling" ( )

@fat

  • video

    "What is open source and why do I feel so guilty?" ( , )

@fatih

  • post

    "Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects" ( )

@feross

  • post

    "Recap of the experiment" ( )

  • slides

    "What I learned from WebTorrent: Lessons learned from starting and running a P2P open source project" ( )

@fijal

  • video

    "Open source funding" ( )

@FooBarWidget

  • video

    "Bootstrapping a business around open source" ( )

  • video

    "Maintaining Passenger" ( )

@freakboy3742

  • interview

    "Maintainer Stories: Russell Keith-Magee" ( )

@gaearon

  • interview

    "Maintaining Open Source Projects: Dan Abramov" ( )

@hzoo

  • post

    "(Open) source of anxiety" ( )

  • video

    "Through the Open Source Looking Glass" ( , )

  • video

    "Maintainer, heal thyself" ( , )

  • interview

    "Maintainer Stories: Henry Zhu" ( )

  • video

    "Maintaining an OSS project" ( , )

@indexzero

  • slides

    "Keeping Important Code Alive" ( )

  • video

    "Modernizing winston for node@4" ( , )

@jacobian

  • video

    "What Part of '... for Life' Don't You Understand?" ( )

@janl

  • post

    "Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source" ( )

@jeresig

  • interview

    "Walking Away From Your Open Source Project: John Resig" ( )

@jessfraz

  • interview

    "Maintainer Stories: Jess Frazelle ( )

@jodosha

  • video

    "Lessons Learned While Building Hanami" ( , )

@kelset

  • video

    "All Hands on Deck: The React Native Community Experience" ( , )

@kennethreitz

  • post

    "The Reality of Developer Burnout" ( )

@kentcdodds

  • video

    "The First Pull Request" ( , )

  • podcast

    "First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance" ( )

  • video

    "Managing an Open Source Project" ( , )

  • video

    "Open Sourcing Your Stuff" ( , )

@KrauseFx

  • post

    "Scaling open source communities" ( )

@kris-nova

@Krzysztof-Cieslak

  • post

    "OSS and Community: The Story" ( )

@kytrinyx

  • video

    "Maintainer Stories: Katrina Owen" ( )

@lmccart

  • interview

    "Design, Software, and Open Source" ( )

@mikeal

  • post

    "Request's Past, Present and Future" ( )

@MikeMcQuaid

  • post

    "Research Study Interview: The Work of Maintaining Open Source Software" ( )

  • post

    "The Open Source Contributor Funnel" ( , , )

@mlavin

  • video

    "Maintaining Your Sanity While Maintaining Your Open Source App" ( )

@mpdehaan

  • interview

    "Michael DeHaan on creating Ansible and SourceOptics" ( )

@mxcl

  • video

    "Making Homebrew: The Genesis and Growth of a Global Open Source Project" ( )

@nathanmarz

  • post

    "History of Apache Storm and lessons learned" ( )

@nolanlawson

  • post

    "What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer" ( )

@pgbovine

  • video

    "Python Tutor Software Development Philosophy" ( )

  • post

    "Ten years and nearly ten million users: my experience being a solo maintainer of open-source software in academia" ( )

@Schneems

  • video

    "Saving Sprockets - What happens when a maintainer leaves" ( , )

@sebmck

  • post

    "~2015 in review" ( )

@Seldaek

  • video

    "Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project" ( )

@sindresorhus

  • interview

    "Between the Wires: An interview with open source developer Sindre Sorhus" ( )

@steveklabnik

  • post

    "How to be an open source gardener" ( )

@stewartsmith

  • video

    "Organizational Change: Challenges in shipping open source firmware" ( )

@stuarthalloway

  • video

    "Stewardship Made Practical" ( )

@tbrisker

  • video

    "On maintaining Foreman" ( )

@tgamblin

  • interview

    "Open Source and Supercomputers (Spack)" ( )

@timgraham

  • interview

    "Maintainer Stories: Tim Graham" ( )

@Trott

  • audio

    "Slugging It Out In Open Source" ( , )

@vjeux

  • video

    "Being Successful at Open Source" ( )

@withoutboats

  • post

    "Organizational Debt" ( )

@yyx990803

  • interview

    "Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)" ( )

  • interview

    "Maintainer Stories: Evan You" ( )

  • video

    "The Journey to Full Time Open Source" ( )

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