Open Source: The Next Generation
summary
Major League Hacking runs a 12-week MLH Fellowship that places early-career developers onto real projects from GitHub partners like Meta and Amazon and into codebases such as React, Homebrew, Flask and Apache Ozone. The program attracts ~30,000 applicants, has graduated 800+ fellows from 93 countries and produced 1,300+ PRs with an 80–90% merge rate, often leading to hires (example: a fellow hired by G Research). It tackles the 19 million unresolved issues problem by scoping digestible tasks, daily mentorship and measurable Day‑Zero ROI.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:14Open Source the Next Generation
- 3:05Text Skills Gap
- 6:36Open Source Infrastructure Crisis
- 12:16The Mlh Fellowship
- 23:07Takeaways
- 24:15Demonstrating Roi from Day Zero
- 25:13Thinking Long Term
- 33:34Solana Foundation
- 35:24Aspirational Storytelling
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