Maintainer Month

May 2025

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Stories and interviews featuring maintainers of your favourite open source projects! Have a maintainer story to share? Add it here!

Changelog

The Changelog Podcast

A podcast discussing the latest in open source, software development, and the people behind it.

Interviews

Various projects

GitHub

The ReadME Project

Stories and interviews highlighting the work and journeys of developers in the open source community.

Interviews

Various projects

Ayu Adiati

From Contributor to Maintainer: My Journey in Open Source

Special for Maintainer Month, Ayu shares their journey and experience from being a contributor to a maintainer

Blog

Maintainer Journey

Katherine Druckman

Maintainer Burnout is a Problem. So, What Are We Going to Do About It?

Maintainers talk about their struggles leading projects, and how the industry needs to change

Blog

Burnout

Katherine Druckman, Karen Chu, and Sarah Christoff

Open Source Maintainership: The Highs, Lows, and Everything Inbetween

A conversation with Sarah Christoph, lead maintainer of Porter, and Karen Chu, community manager for Helm, on the realities of maintaining OSS.

Podcast

Community building, Maintainer Journey, Burnout

Brian Douglas

Another JavaScript Framework: Ryan Carniato

Ryan Carniato shares his journey from music to open source, discussing SolidJS and MarkoJS.

Podcast

Maintainer Journey

Kade Morton

From India to Open Source Intelligence: My Journey to Becoming a Maintainer

Kade Morton talks about their journey to starting a company that uses and maintains open source software.

Blog

Maintainer Journey, Cybersecurity

Sustain OSS

Sarah Boyce & David Blass

A podcast exploring TypeScript, open source, and creating user-friendly interfaces.

Podcast

Django, ArkType

Open at Microsoft

Kaleb Luedtke

Insights on contributing to the Windows Package Manager Community repository.

Interviews

Windows Package Manager

The Changelog Podcast

Alyssa Wright, Chad Whitacre, and Duane O'Brien

Exploring the role of maintainers in the open source ecosystem and their impact.

Podcast

Companies sponsoring OSS

Sustain OSS

Bob Killen & Navendu Pottekkat

Conversations on Kubernetes, Apache APISIX, and their contributions to open source.

Podcast

Kubernetes, Apache APISIX

Open at Microsoft

Mark Fussell

Guidance on getting involved with the Dapr community and its projects.

Interviews

Dapr

OSSPH

Joff Tiquez

An exploration of the story behind Open Source Software Philippines (OSSPH).

Blog

Open Source Software Philippines

SurrealDB

Rushmore Mushambi

Behind-the-scenes insights into contributions to SurrealDB during Maintainer Month 2023.

Blog

SurrealDB

Chrissy Codes

4 Tips to Transition from Contributorhood to Maintainership

Advice for contributors aspiring to take on the role of maintainers in open source projects.

Blog

Contributorhood to Maintainership

The ReadME Podcast

Kelsey Hightower: Present

Kelsey shares his origin story, insights on the future of Kubernetes, and advice on making complicated technology easier to understand.

Podcast

Maintainer Journey, Kubernetes

Open Source Friday

Open Source Friday: Susan Spencer of Seamly

A video session discussing open source contributions and the journey of Seamly.

Video

Maintainer Journey

Open Source Stories

The critical human infrastructure of open source with Duane O’Brien

A discussion about the essential human factors that keep the open source ecosystem thriving.

Interviews

Critical Human Infrastructure

Open at Microsoft

Erik Ejlskov Jensen

Exploring what's next for Entity Framework Core Power Tools.

Interviews

Entity Framework Core Power Tools

Sustain OSS

Russell Keith-Magee & Uriel Ofir

A podcast highlighting the BeeWare Project and Ma'akaf initiatives.

Podcast

BeeWare Project, Ma’akaf

Open Source Stories

Jessica Tegner

Insights into Jessica's journey to becoming a maintainer for the pypandoc project.

Interviews

pypandoc

Open at Microsoft

Roberto Perez

An introduction to Azure Redis and its open source contributions.

Interviews

Redis

Sustain OSS

Predrag Gruevski & Kingsley Mkpandiok

Discussions on Rust and open source design contributions.

Podcast

Rust, Open Source Design

Sustain OSS

Martin Woodward

A podcast episode focused on the significance of Maintainer Month and its impact.

Podcast

Maintainer Month

Open at Microsoft

Ed Warnicke

An introduction to OmniBOR and how it benefits open source projects.

Interviews

OmniBOR

SurrealDB

Yusuke Kuoka

Behind-the-scenes insights into contributions to SurrealDB during Maintainer Month 2023.

Blog

SurrealDB

The Changelog Podcast

Maintainer Maintainers

Stormy Peters, Dr. Dawn Foster, and Angie Byron discuss the challenges and rewards of maintaining maintainers.

Podcast

Maintainer Journey

host @EbonyLouis, guest Brian Ellin

Maintaining the Bluesky MCP Server

A conversation between Ebony Louis and Brian Ellin on building and maintaining the Bluesky MCP server—and what it takes to build with open protocols.

Livestream VOD

AI agent, MCP, open source

Rizel Scarlett @blackgirlbytes

How We Built the Confluence MCP Server

Rizel Scarlett speaks with Sean Falconer and Edward V., maintainers of the Confluence MCP server, about building it and how it democratizes real-time data streaming.

Livestream VOD

AI agent, MCP server, goose, confluence

Ian Douglas @iandouglas

Collaborative Maintainership in Motion: Improving the mbot MCP Server

To help an AI agent drive a robot, contributor Ian Douglas became a maintainer by extending an existing MCP server—highlighting the power of shared ownership and open source collaboration.

Blog

AI agent, MCP server, robot, open source

Mic Neale @michaelneale

What It Takes to Maintain Local AI: Goose + Qwen3

Mic Neale shares his perspective as a maintainer on building tools that respect developer autonomy while building local-first AI tools.

Blog

AI agent, open source

Swastik Baranwal

Swastik Baranwal Open Source Journey

Hear about Swastik Baranwal's open source story through the Open Source Initiative (OSI), where he tells his story and how he inspires new people to get involved in open source.

blog

open source, story, maintainer

OpenSSF

Scaling Security: Inside the GitHub Securing Open Source Software Fund

In this episode of What’s in the SOSS?, CRob sits down with Kevin Crosby and Xavier René-Corail from GitHub to unpack the GitHub Secure Open Source (SOS) Fund.

podcast

open source, security, funding

Repository

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