What do open source maintainers need? At long last, we share the lessons learned at our Berlin 2019 event in the first of our Event Report Series. Learn more at

Cultural change around open source is a big project and we cannot do it alone. We need your help! We're looking for coders, designers, writers, facilitators, and more. Whatever your skills, we welcome your involvement. Please volunteer to help us out:.

It’s easy to be misunderstood online, and emojis only get you so far 😩. Maintainers need to be aware of their communication styles. Read more about creating healthy communications cultures in our Berlin 2019 Event Report

Burnout is real. Between the constant demand for fixes, the lack of outside contributions, and, oh yes, their day jobs, maintainers are under a lot of stress. Learn how we can help nurture a culture of sustainable self-care in our Berlin 2019 Event Report

Maintenance is boring. Help us to encourage creating a culture where maintainers and maintenance is celebrated as much as innovation and novelty. Learn more in our Berlin 2019 Event Report

Open source projects should be thinking about governance and project management early—but maintainers need training and resources! Learn more about the need for governance best practices and management training in our Berlin 2019 Event Report

Funding isn’t yet a solved problem, and too many efforts focus on individuals instead of setting up effective governance. Learn more about the challenges of funding open source in our Berlin 2019 Event Report

RT @ProvidedAsIs: 📯TOMORROW!📯. Join us for an evening of #oss, #foss and #opensource - a safe space to discuss and share experiences and id….

RT @monkchips: i love maintenance. maintenance is the best. maintenance makes the world go round. celebrate maintenance, for without it eve….

RT @posco: My OSS confessional blog post is finally published: -- I'm interested in hearing from other OSS contribu….

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We're starting to plan out our 2020 tour. What if we brought Maintainerati to Nigeria?. Retweet if you would like to see a Maintainerati event in Lagos!

Our goal for 2020 is to host a number of Maintainerati events across the globe, and being the development of maintainer-focused training and workshops to help dessiminate the best practices we learn from _you_.

We are very excited to announce the Maintainerati Foundation, a new non-profit driving Maintainerati events and programs worldwide. Our mission: Supporting the maintainers of the global digital infrastructure to build healthy, productive, inclusive, and sustainable communities.

@FormidableLabs @ProvidedAsIs Learn more about Provided As Is on GitHub:.

With @FormidableLabs we are bringing the format of our conference to a more localized scale: The first event, called @ProvidedAsIs, is in London 🇬🇧!. We're aiming to bring together the local #oss community and we hope you'll enjoy it! 🤗. 8th Oct -🎟👉

We’ve got stickers. They’re small, but mighty. Want one? Find @DEGoodmanWilson at @The_Maintainers III in DC in two weeks.

RT @ProvidedAsIs: There it is🐈!. We are so happy to announce the DATE & LOCATION for our first event!. 📆 8th October (Tuesday).🗺 Innovation….