The Open Source Maintenance Fee with Rob Mensching

The Open Source Maintenance Fee with Rob Mensching

Author: Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell May 1, 2025 Duration: 1:05:35
Open Source Maintainers are burning out or going commercial - how do we solve this? Carl and Richard chat with Rob Mensching about his work to create the open source maintenance fee through GitHub. Rob talks about the common problem of single maintainers getting buried under issues and demands of consumers for a project. Recognizing that most people cannot contribute to the project, a maintenance fee helps support the maintainer in a low friction way for everyone involved. Check out the links to get started!

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