Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm

In 2022, I left Google in search of a sustainable approach to open source maintenance. A year later, I was a full-time independent professional open source maintainer. Today I’m announcing the natural progression of that experiment: Geomys,1 a small firm of professional maintainers with a portfol...

The Reciprocal Value of Access to Maintainers

Last May I left Google to build a more sustainable model for Open Source maintenance. After a summer break, I resumed my maintenance work on the Go project in September, and I started offering my services to companies that rely on Go. My vision is that of Open Source maintenance as a real...

Google Created 'Open Source Maintenance Crew' to Help Secure Critical Projects

Google on Thursday announced the creation of a new "Open Source Maintenance Crew" to focus on bolstering the security of critical open source projects. Additionally, the tech giant pointed out Open Source Insights as a tool for analyzing packages and their dependency graphs, using it to determine...