Open source software underpins nearly every modern application, including frameworks powering

the most popular websites to the library securing financial backend systems.

However, while open source drives collaboration and innovation at a global scale, it also

faces deep challenges in sustainability, community health, and long-term maintenance.

Many of the world's most critical dependencies are still maintained by just a handful of volunteers.

Abby Kibunak-Maze leads open-source maintainer programs at GitHub, and Brian Munzenmire is a principal

engineer, no JS maintainer, and author of the book, Approachable Open Source.

Abby and Brian joined Josh Goldberg to talk about what it means to build and sustain healthy open source projects,

how maintainers can foster inclusive communities, the evolving role of open source in the workplace, and how AI is reshaping the way we

collaborate. This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open source developer.

Josh works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably TypeScript ESLint, a powerful

static analysis tool set for JavaScript and

TypeScript. He is also the author of the O'Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for

developer technologies, and a co-founder of SquiggleConf, a conference for excellent web developer

tooling. Find Josh on Blue Sky,

Fostodon, and dot com as Joshua K. Goldberg.

With me today are Abby K. MazeKamak-Maze, who runs the open-source maintainer programs at GitHub, and Brian Munzenmeyer, principal engineer, no-j-s maintainer, and author of Approachable Open Source.

Abby and Brian, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

Hey, thanks for having us.

Thank you.

I'm excited to talk to you too about open source and books

GitHub. Abby, can you start off telling us who you are, how you came to LEPOS Maintainer

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