From Burnout To
Built-To-Last

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The Open Source Org Advantage

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Gilbert Sanchez @HeyItsGilbert

Thanks!

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Hey! It’s Gilbert

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• Staff Software Development Engineer
• ADHD 🌶️🧠
• Links.GilbertSanchez.com

Our Goal

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By the end of this talk you will understand:

1. Single maintainer pitfalls
2. Value of Organizations
3. Free services for your org

Why do we do open source?

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• Obligation
• Helpful
• Career
• Ego
• ADHD

Dopamine

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1. Have an idea!
2. Solve a problem with code!
3. Share the code!
4. …
5. Maintain the code?
6. MAINTAIN THE CODE?!?!

Burnout

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A form of exhaustion caused by constantly feeling of being swamped.

• Emotional, mental, and physical fatigue.
• Recovering isn’t straight forward.

• Burnout…occurs because we’re trying to solve the same problem over and over. ― Susan Scott

Bus Factor

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Pitfalls & Red Flags

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1. Burnout
2. Bus Factor
3. Spread too Thin
4. Not Interested in Maintaining

Value of Organizations

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Why Orgs?

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1. Distribute responsibilities
2. Growth Opportunities
3. Soft skill career signal
4. Opportunity to work with people
5. Reduce the “bus factor”

Psake

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Standing on the shoulder of giants.

1. Officially started in 2008
2. Migrated from single maintainer to Org in 2018
3. 72 Contributors

Free for FOSS

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GitHub obv…

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GitHub Copilot

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A free subscription for GitHub Copilot is available to verified students, teachers, and maintainers of popular open-source repositories on GitHub. If you meet the criteria as an open source maintainer, you will be automatically notified when you visit the GitHub Copilot subscription page. As a student, if you currently receive the GitHub Student Developer Pack, you will also be offered a free subscription when you visit the GitHub Copilot subscription page.

“Popular” seems to be subjective.

Keys to the Castle

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• Team Account
• Not associated with Commercial Activity
• One form!
• 1Password/for-open-source

Funding: OpenCollective

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Hosting: Netlify

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• Open Source Initiative approved license
• Code of Conduct
• Link to them
• opensource-form.netlify.com

But Wait! There’s more

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Developer Tools & IDEs

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• JetBrains Open Source License — Free access to all JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, WebStorm, Rider, etc.) for active OSS contributors

• GitHub Copilot Pro — Free for maintainers of popular open source repositories

Hosting & Deployment

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• Vercel OSS Program — $3,600/year in credits + partner perks

• GitLab for Open Source — Free GitLab Ultimate + 50,000 CI/CD compute min

• Docker Sponsored OSS — Verified badges, analytics, unlimited image pulls

CI/CD & Build

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• CircleCI for Open Source — Up to 400,000 credits/month for Linux/Arm/Docker builds

• SignPath Foundation — Free code signing certificates for OSS projects

Security & Quality

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• Sentry for Open Source — Free error tracking & performance monitoring

• Snyk for Open Source — Free security scanning for public repositories

• SonarCloud — Free static code analysis for public repos (30+ languages)

Documentation & Search

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• Read the Docs — Free hosting for open source documentation

• Algolia DocSearch — Free search for technical docs and blogs

Communication & Collaboration

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• Zulip Cloud — Free Standard tier for open source projects

• Atlassian Community License — Free Jira, Confluence, Trello, Bitbucket

Localization

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• Crowdin — Completely free for open source projects

• POEditor — Free unlimited strings/languages for OSI-licensed projects

Cloud Credits

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• AWS Promotional Credits — Credits for CI/CD, testing, artifact storage

• Microsoft Azure Credits — For development, testing, infrastructure

Our Goal

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You should understand:

1. Single maintainer pitfalls
2. Value of Organizations
3. Free services for your org

Future Proof Checklist

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• 🔲 Create the Organization
• 🔲 Invite Contributors
• 🔲 Outline & Understand roles
• 🔲 Look for Leadership Opportunities
• 🔲 Healthy project -> Good Community

THANK YOU

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Questions? Find me @heyitsgilbert