Training our Next Generation of Great Open Source Citizens
summary
Major League Hacking runs a 12-week MLH Fellowship that matches candidates to real open source projects with mentors, curriculum, standups and reviews; 30,000 apply, 450 fellows graduate, and they submit 1,300 pull requests to projects like React, Jest, Homebrew and Flask (including a VS Code extension for Paisa) with an 80–90% merge rate. Program claims to both fill hiring pipelines and reduce maintainer backlog by producing production-quality contributions and measurable ROI.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Open source talent crisis
- 3:50Tech skills gap reality
- 9:24Open source infrastructure at risk
- 13:11MLH Fellowship program
- 19:45Key takeaways for programs
- 22:56Next steps for collaboration
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