The Real Costs of Open Source Sustainability
summary
2016’s Roads and Bridges exposes that critical projects lack maintainers and many maintainers work 60–100 hours/week, yet most industry responses focus only on funding via new VC-backed platforms that often ignore project needs. Sustainability requires three simultaneous elements: contributing back (code, testing, docs, infrastructure — not just money), human and geographic diversity, and enforced code of conduct for community safety. Start by mapping vital dependencies, ask each project what it actually needs, then commit long-term resources and governance.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Open source sustainability crisis
- 4:14Corporate sustainability lessons
- 11:04Open source beyond funding
- 13:15Contributing back to projects
- 16:10Diversity in open source
- 19:24Avoiding vendor lock-in
- 20:32Community safety in open source
- 23:42Company open source plan
- 26:32Sustainable open source strategy
- 27:56Business benefits of sustainability
- 29:03Q&A
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