Building a Sustainable Platform With Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

"Fueling a culture of openness in innovation and research." That slogan is well known to Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, a leader in GitHub's open-source maintainer program. With a background in open science, Mayes felt right at home when jumping to open source and mentoring many developers at the Cloud-based Hosting service.

On this episode of The Business of Open Source, listen to Mayes speak on sustainability and resilience in building a platform for developers and what makes a robust and sustainable environment. Mayes also talks about financial stability and models in the open source world and what it truly means to break from a main backer and build on your own.

Highlights:

• Supporting "maintainers" (3:02)
• Succession planning (3:38)
• Being resilient in sustainability (5:40)
• Building financially without company backing (6:29)
• GitHub experimentation (10:42)
• Strategies for critical projects that are lower in the stack (11:55)
• Technical sustainability (13:47)
• Hypothetical financial models (19:33)

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