Business Wire

Tidelift Study Reveals Paid Open Source Maintainers Do Significantly More Critical Security and Maintenance Work Than Unpaid Maintainers

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tidelift, a provider of solutions for improving the security and resilience of the open source software powering modern applications, today released the 2024 state of the open ...
Business Insider

Survey Finds Many Open Source Maintainers Are Stressed Out and Underpaid, But Persist So They Can Make a Positive Impact

BOSTON, June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey by Tidelift, the premier provider of solutions for managing the open source software behind modern applications, found that most open source ...

Did maintainers abandon your critical open-source tool? This rescue plan offers a lifeline

ZDNET's key takeaways EmeritOSS provides a new lease of life for three open-source projects.The tool adds a way to patch ...
Forbes

Uniting To Act On Untapped Leverage: How Open-Source Maintainers Can Work Together And Prioritize Long-Term Sustainability

Open-source software has come a long way from its early days. What started as passionate developers building projects simply for enjoyment and the belief that something specific should exist has now ...
Business Insider

Open source maintainers feel stressed out and underpaid — and companies should 'do their homework' to support them

Open source startup Tidelift surveyed 400 open source maintainers for a new report. The number one complaint among maintainers was not getting financially compensated for their work. Experts say ...
Business Wire

Tidelift Announces Upstream 2023: Third-Annual Event Celebrating Open Source and Maintainers

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tidelift, a provider of solutions for improving the resilience of the open source software powering modern applications, today announced the theme and keynote speakers for ...
TechCrunch

Open source sustainability

Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the ...
InfoWorld

What does an open source maintainer do after burnout?

Maintaining an open source project is far different from coding, which is a problem if coding is what you love Redis founder Salvatore Sanfilippo hadn’t run up against term limits. No one was ...
InfoWorld

How do we fund open source?

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...
Computer Weekly

Kubernetes and the open-source maintainer question

The expert team at Freeform Dynamics offer news and views on the latest hot topics, and pragmatic advice based on real-world experience and meaningful research studies. While much of last month’s ...
ZDNet

Hard work and poor pay stresses out open-source maintainers

Recently, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, blocked University of Minnesota developers from submitting any Linux patches because several had deliberately tried to ...