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Aug 14, 2021

• @Trott, slug (⭐220)
  • "Slugging It Out In Open Source" (audio, transcript)

Jan 20, 2020

• @BurntSushi, Rust libraries
  • "My FOSS Story" (post)

Nov 23, 2019

• @pgbovine, Python Tutor
  • "Python Tutor Software Development Philosophy" (video)
  • "Ten years and nearly ten million users: my experience being a solo maintainer of open-source software in academia" (post)

Nov 11, 2019

• @brettcannon, Python
  • "The give and take of open source" (video)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Brett Cannon" (interview)
  • "Setting expectations for open source participation" (post)
  • "Why I took October off from OSS volunteering" (post)

• @sebmck, Babel (⭐42k)
  • "~2015 in review" (post)

Oct 17, 2019

• @ashfurrow, Moya (⭐14k)
  • "Building Open Source Communities" (slides)

• @hzoo, Babel (⭐42k)
  • "(Open) source of anxiety" (post)
  • "Through the Open Source Looking Glass" (video, slides (⭐20))
  • "Maintainer, heal thyself" (video, slides)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Henry Zhu" (interview)
  • "Maintaining an OSS project" (video, slides)

Oct 13, 2019

• @brianc, node-postgres (⭐11k)
  • "Creating and maintaining node-postgres solo" (interview)

• @mpdehaan, Ansible (⭐55k), SourceOptics
  • "Michael DeHaan on creating Ansible and SourceOptics" (interview)

Sep 20, 2019

• @nathanmarz, Apache Storm (⭐6.4k)
  • "History of Apache Storm and lessons learned" (post)

Jul 31, 2019

• @kelset, React Native (⭐105k)
  • "All Hands on Deck: The React Native Community Experience" (video, slides)

Jun 03, 2019

• @ceejbot, Entropic (⭐5.3k), npm (⭐6.5k)
  • "The economics of open source" (video, post (⭐479))

• @dhh, Rails
  • "Open source beyond the market" (video, post)

May 20, 2019

• @antirez, Redis (⭐57k)
  • "The struggles of an open source maintainer" (post)

• @feross, WebTorrent (⭐27k)
  • "Recap of the funding experiment" (post)
  • "What I learned from WebTorrent: Lessons learned from starting and running a P2P open source project" (slides)

Apr 24, 2019

• @emilyemorehouse, Python
  • "My Path to Becoming a Python Core Developer" (video)

Apr 21, 2019

• @colcarroll, PyMC3 (⭐7.1k)
  • "Two Years of Open Source" (slides/post)

Apr 12, 2019

• @mikeal, request (⭐26k)
  • "Request's Past, Present and Future" (post (⭐26k))

Apr 04, 2019

• @indexzero, winston
  • "Keeping Important Code Alive" (slides)
  • "Modernizing winston for node@4" (video, slides)

Jan 27, 2019

• @stuarthalloway, Clojure (⭐9.7k)
  • "Stewardship Made Practical" (video)

Jan 10, 2019

• @withoutboats, Rust
  • "Organizational Debt" (post)

Nov 30, 2018

• @dominictarr, scuttlebot (⭐1.6k) and others
  • "Statement on event-stream compromise" (post)

Nov 08, 2018

• @fatih, vim-go (⭐15k)
  • "Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects" (post)

Oct 12, 2018

• @evancz, Elm (⭐7k)
  • "The Hard Parts of Open Source" (video, slides)
  • "On Storytelling" (video)

Aug 15, 2018

• @MikeMcQuaid, Homebrew
  • "Research Study Interview: The Work of Maintaining Open Source Software" (post)
  • "The Open Source Contributor Funnel" (post, video, slides)

Aug 02, 2018

• @jacobian, Django (⭐67k)
  • "What Part of '... for Life' Don't You Understand?" (video)

• @sindresorhus, AVA (⭐20k), awesome (⭐223k)
  • "Between the Wires: An interview with open source developer Sindre Sorhus" (interview)

• @vjeux, React Native (⭐105k), Prettier (⭐44k)
  • "Being Successful at Open Source" (video)

• @yyx990803, Vue.js
  • "Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)" (interview)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Evan You" (interview)
  • "The Journey to Full Time Open Source" (video)

Jul 02, 2018

• @bbatsov, Rubocop (⭐12k)
  • "Interview with Bozhidar Batsov: The Creator’s Thoughts on RuboCop and the Ruby Style Guide" (post)

Jun 25, 2018

• @alyssais, Homebrew (⭐34k)
  • "Why I helped maintain Homebrew" (video)

• @amjith, pgcli (⭐11k)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Amjith Ramanujam" (video)

• @FooBarWidget & @prototype, Phusion Passenger
  • "Bootstrapping a business around open source" (video)
  • "Maintaining Passenger" (video)

• @tbrisker, Foreman (⭐2.3k)
  • "On maintaining Foreman" (video)

Jun 21, 2018

• @mxcl, Homebrew
  • "Making Homebrew: The Genesis and Growth of a Global Open Source Project" (video)

Apr 08, 2018

• @KrauseFx, fastlane (⭐36k)
  • "Scaling open source communities" (post)

Mar 21, 2018

• @fijal, PyPy
  • "Open source funding" (video)

Feb 26, 2018

• @Krzysztof-Cieslak, Ionide
  • "OSS and Community: The Story" (post)

Feb 14, 2018

• @ctb & @mr-c, khmer (⭐692)
  • "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" (paper)

• @kennethreitz, requests (⭐48k)
  • "The Reality of Developer Burnout" (post)

Feb 12, 2018

• @fat, Bootstrap (⭐160k)
  • "What is open source and why do I feel so guilty?" (video, slides)

• @jodosha, Hanami
  • "Lessons Learned While Building Hanami" (video, slides)

Feb 08, 2018

• @ericholscher, Read the Docs (⭐7.3k)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Eric Holscher" (video)
  • "The post I never published" (post)

Feb 07, 2018

• @danvet, Linux drm-intel
  • "Maintainers Don't Scale" (video, slides, post)
  • "Burning Down the Castle" (video, post)

• @Schneems, Sprockets (⭐863), CodeTriage
  • "Saving Sprockets - What happens when a maintainer leaves" (video, post with transcript)

• @stewartsmith, Skiboot (⭐94)
  • "Organizational Change: Challenges in shipping open source firmware" (video)

Feb 06, 2018

• @janl, CouchDB (⭐5.5k)
  • "Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source" (post)

• @kentcdodds, various
  • "The First Pull Request" (video, slides)
  • "First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance" (podcast)
  • "Managing an Open Source Project" (video, slides)
  • "Open Sourcing Your Stuff" (video, slides)

• @steveklabnik, Ruby on Rails (⭐52k)
  • "How to be an open source gardener" (post)

Feb 05, 2018

• @ariya, PhantomJS (⭐29k)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Ariya Hidayat" (interview)

• @boneskull, Mocha (⭐22k)
  • "Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout" (interview)

• @danielbachhuber, wp-cli (⭐4.6k)
  • "Experiments and the Economics of Open Source" (interview)
  • "My condolences, you're now the maintainer of a popular open source project" (video, post)

• @freakboy3742, PyBee
  • "Maintainer Stories: Russell Keith-Magee" (interview)

• @gaearon, React (⭐196k), Redux (⭐59k)
  • "Maintaining Open Source Projects: Dan Abramov" (interview)

• @jeresig, jQuery (⭐57k)
  • "Walking Away From Your Open Source Project: John Resig" (interview)

• @jessfraz, Kubernetes
  • "Maintainer Stories: Jess Frazelle (interview)

• @kris-nova, kubernetes-kops (⭐14k)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Kris Nova" (interview)

• @kytrinyx, Exercism
  • "Maintainer Stories: Katrina Owen" (video)

• @lmccart, p5.js (⭐18k)
  • "Design, Software, and Open Source" (interview)

• @mlavin, Django (⭐67k)
  • "Maintaining Your Sanity While Maintaining Your Open Source App" (video)

• @nolanlawson, PouchDB (⭐15k)
  • "What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer" (post)

• @Seldaek, Composer (⭐27k)
  • "Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project" (video)

• @tgamblin, Spack (⭐3k)
  • "Open Source and Supercomputers (Spack)" (interview)

• @timgraham, Django
  • "Maintainer Stories: Tim Graham" (interview)