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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Highlight

posted on March 15, 2025 in: Quote.

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However, the extent to which casual contributors affect projects today is a newer phenomenon, a direct byproduct of GitHub’s platform effects. By lowering the friction to contribute, combined with the exponential growth in users of open source projects, GitHub has created the ideal conditions for casual contributors to flourish.

— Nadia Eghbal

Replicated under Fair Use from Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal.