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How open source maintainers ensure projects are safe, friendly, and thriving

Best practices for keeping OSS safe and effective
February 23, 2022

What are maintainers doing to ensure OSS projects are safe and effective?

As an open source maintainer and long-time contributor, I can happily say that getting stuck into open source software (OSS) can change the way you work. For the better.

When I first started my own OSS journey, I was surprised to discover that open source was the way software began in the 80s at MIT. In fact, proprietary software is the new kid on the block. Back then, innovators knew that in order to create something brilliant, you needed to keep the codebase open for contributors. That you’d naturally want more brains working on something rather than restricting it to just a few.

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