What is the definition of open source software? What challenges do open source maintainers face? What are some ways maintainers can be supported financially and legally? How does Tidelift fit into the whole scene? And what exactly is the difference between a maintainer and a “lifter”?
Good news! Josh Simmons, Tidelift ecosystem strategy lead and president of the OSI, has perspectives to share on all those questions. And he recently sat down with Christopher Bailey at Real Python podcast to cover these topics and more.
Listen to the whole podcast now.