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Thousands of packages are eligible for income on Tidelift. Here’s how to search the growing list.

When we hosted our first ever lifter event earlier this year, we asked the open source maintainers in attendance to imagine the future of open ...
Keenan Szulik
by Keenan Szulik
on September 5, 2019

Check out The Changelog's maintainer spotlight, featuring lifter Feross Aboukhadijeh

By Amy Hays on September 3, 2019
A few months ago, we announced our partnership with the podcast The Changelog. Each month, we partner with them on a new Maintainer Spotlight podcast ...

How to get an enterprise-class experience for community-led open source projects

By Donald Fischer on August 29, 2019
Once chided as a movement made up of communists and thieves, open source today is the modern development platform for corporate applications. Across ...

Project Lombok's Roel Spilker: Why rejecting good ideas is the hardest part of being a maintainer

By Brenna Heaps on August 27, 2019
Project Lombok maintainer Roel Spilker thinks the hardest part of being a maintainer is rejecting good feature ideas. It’s heartbreaking, he said, to ...

A peek inside the Tidelift technology stack

By Jeremy Katz on August 22, 2019
Like most engineers, I’m always curious about the technology stack the companies I admire are built upon. We’ve had several people ask about what we ...

Implementing security and licensing policies with Tidelift

By Havoc Pennington on August 20, 2019
The Tidelift Subscription can help you avoid introducing security and licensing problems into your open source dependencies. We partner with upstream ...

How an annoying Python package led Alex Clark to create Pillow

By Brenna Heaps on August 15, 2019
While working in a Python CMS called Plone, Alex Clark kept running into issues with its imaging library, PIL, caused by the non-standard way it was ...

Bus factor, boss factor, and the economics of disappearing maintainers

By Luis Villa on August 13, 2019
We've jokingly referred to the problem of disappearing maintainers as "bus factor" for about as far back as I can remember. In short, the idea is ...

Project Lombok core maintainer Reinier Zwitserloot shares his open source journey

By Brenna Heaps on August 8, 2019
Reinier Zwitserloot’s journey into the world of open source is a familiar one: he discovered a problem he thought he could fix, so he and his ...

react-native-camera is now part of the Tidelift Subscription

By Brenna Heaps on August 6, 2019
react-native-camera is a comprehensive camera module for React Native that supports photographs, videos, face detection, barcode scanning, and text ...

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