Kara Sowles
Kara Sowles is on the Open Source Programs team at GitHub, advocating for and supporting the open source software maintainers who keep our world running.
During the month of June, we’re holding space for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated.
Open source runs the world. But who runs open source? Open source project maintainers are behind the software we use everyday. Yet project maintenance is intense work, and it doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Welcome to Maintainer Month. 🎉 During the month of June, we’re holding space for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated.
Maintainer Month is an open source project bookmarking a month to collectively contemplate open source maintainership, whatever form that takes. Various organizations, projects, and companies are running activities, events, and distributing resources. Do you have an open source activity or resource for open source maintainers? Submit a pull request to join in on Maintainer Month, and invite the community to participate.
Here’s a sneak peak at some of the virtual Maintainer Month events 👀
You can see all the events on the full Maintainer Month schedule ⇒
Do you want to add an event of your own? Submit a pull request to the site repository⇒
Are you ready to dive in? Here are a few resources for open source maintainers that are available year-round:
Do you have a resource that you want to share? Add it to the library ⇒
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