Open Source and other source available projects have been a huge driver of progress in our industry, but building and maintaining an open source project is about a lot more than just writing the initial code and putting together a good README. On this episode of the maintenance mini-series, we’ll be discussing open source and the maintenance required to keep it going.

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Featuring:

Aaron Schlesinger – Website, GitHub, X
sam boyer – GitHub, X
Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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