AI is changing open source. What happens to contributor pathways, maintainers, and community health along the way? Let's talk about it. (I'll be joining between newborn naps 🐣) SustainOSS AI, FLOSS & Sustainability Forum: sustainoss.org/events/ai-fl...

AI, FLOSS, and Sustainability Virtual Forum

A Space for Open Source Sustainers

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We're hosting a forum on AI, FLOSS, and Sustainability. If you're interested in exploring how AI is impacting FLOSS software and all those who work on it: join us for the next SustainOSS Virtual Forum on Thursday 11 June 2026. sustainoss.org/events/ai-fl...

AI, FLOSS, and Sustainability Virtual Forum

A Space for Open Source Sustainers

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Two big arrivals this May 💜🐣 github.blog/open-source/... #MaintainerMonth

Passing on this message from Camilla, a PM on @github.com ’s Maintainer Love team: If you could wave a magic wand, what is the #1 feature you'd want us to ship? No idea is too tiny - the smallest changes often have the biggest impact.

You can now create GitHub Issues directly from Slack in natural language! Mention @GitHub in any channel and describe your work, and the app creates structured Issues in your repo (and sub-issues, too).

A local GitHub meetup in Toronto?? Count me in ✨ GitHub Copilot Dev Days - Toronto #1 is April 2nd and I'm so here for it. Demos, lightning talks, snacks, and community. Drop me a line if you'll be there! luma.com/q6uu9gbo

GitHub Copilot Dev Days - Toronto - #1 · Luma

Join us for the first GitHub Copilot Dev Days Canada event in Toronto! We're hosting this in partnership with North Toronto Cloud & DevOps User Group! We're…

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Has mentoring in open source gotten harder? I wrote up my #FOSDEM talk on the GitHub blog The core framework: Comprehension, Context, Continuity. Comprehension and Context get you reviewed. Continuity gets you mentored. github.blog/open-source/...

Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era

As contribution volume grows, mentorship signals are harder to read. The 3 Cs framework helps maintainers mentor more strategically, without burning out.

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“AI is destroying my humanity.” @mitchellh.com (HashiCorp; Ghostty, Vouch). From a conversation @helen.blog and I had with him. Not an anti-AI take. A maintainer capacity take. Creation got cheaper. Review didn’t. Maintainers: what’s helped you keep mentoring sustainable?

We’re going live in less than an hour 👀 At 3pm ET / 12pm PT, @helen.blog and I will be live with @mitchellh.com, talking about Vouch and what community trust actually looks like in open source. Hope you can join us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npM...

Open Source Friday with Mitchell Hashimoto

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"The Synthetic Senior" — my #FOSDEM talk on AI + open source mentorship The 3 C's for finding contributors worth investing in: 💡 Comprehension ⚙️ Context 🔄 Continuity Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

The Synthetic Senior | FOSDEM 2026

Thank you to the organizers: Laura & Shirley The Synthetic Senior FOSDEM 2026 Community Dev Room Abigail Cabunoc Mayes GitHub, SustainOSS, OpenJS @abbycabs Rethinking Free Software Mentorship in the A...

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Catch me at FOSDEM in just over an hour in the Community Devroom! Excited to share some thoughts on FOSS mentorship in the age of AI. We're in UB5.230 -- learn from my mistakes & go through the U courtyard to get in fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Looking for examples: do you know any OSS projects that have thoughtfully updated their contribution process for AI-assisted PRs? Interested in: * PR templates asking for intent/reasoning * Comprehension checks * Other friction-adding methods Would love to learn from communities experimenting here

One of my favorite parts of FOSDEM is catching up with maintainers 💜 This year we're adding a Monday morning unconference for maintainers. You bring the topics. Joining us? Request a spot: 🍕 Sunday Night Social: gh.io/fosdem-2026 ☕ Monday Unconference: gh.io/fosdem-2026-...

Building for what lasts. At work, in community, and at home. My 2025 year in review → medium.com/@abbycabs/ab...

Abby’s 2025 Year in Review

Building for What Lasts

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She wrote a patent about TIME TRAVEL but still keeps developers grounded in reality 🕰️ @angiejones.tech on balancing visionary thinking w/ practical AI: "Everyone wants to be a visionary, but developers are exhausted by the hype." gh.io/podcast

You can give back to the open source projects that power your world. Support the developers who keep your favorite tools running with GitHub Sponsors. https://github.com/sponsors/explore

That feeling when the Octoverse report (featuring your interview!) drops during Universe week and you're too heads-down to share it🤦‍♀️ Finally watched myself talk about 36M new developers joining GitHub this year. 🧵

Why fun, accessibility, and collaboration are essential to developer learning ➡️ @github.com podcast episode with @cassidoo.co, @jason.energy, @abbycabs.dev, and Andrea youtu.be/YnqJOJ9FzvE?...

The Joy of Developer Education with @codetv-dev | Episode 2 | The GitHub Podcast

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AI is full of opportunity — but “AI slop” is real for open source maintainers. In our chat with @vertedin.de (Electron), I loved this: use these moments to teach contributors — but never at the cost of maintainers’ time or energy. Open source is as much about people as code. 🎧 gh.io/podcast

My Demo Time #ZeroToMergedContest story! I’m a one-person dev team… but with @github Copilot, Spark, and Actions, it feels like I’ve got a whole team behind me. 👉 Watch how I built Demo Time, a VS Code extension that makes live coding stress-free #GitHub #VSCode #DevTools

I submitted this earlier today on behalf of the team at projectbluefin.io. #ZeroToMergedContest www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEJ5...

Project Bluefin

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My "Habit Sync for @todoist.com" app is about to get a significant update, so here are some "behind the scenes" of what it took. - 9 major version upgrades of #ReactNative - Writing my own component library - Translating #Java to #Kotlin @github.com #ZeroToMergedContest

My entry for #ZeroToMergedContest, which is about www.nuget.org/packages/Owa...

ever wonder about the story of nuxtbot, the helpful @github.com actions bot that reopens closed issues, asks for reproductions, and spots regressions? #ZeroToMergedContest

The story of nuxtbot

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I've recently took the time to read a blog post by @abbycabs.dev about who will maintain the future of open source (github.blog/open-source...) 1/🧵

This is it! #ZeroToMergedContest closes TODAY We know maintainers are doing incredible things with GitHub tools. Show us how GitHub helped you shorten the path from idea → impact. 2-min video, real stories, huge opportunity. Submit by end of day (anywhere on earth)! 🌍 →

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Are you part of an open source project that built FAST using GitHub tools? Post a 2min video sharing your story with #ZeroToMergedContest by September 19 and submit it here: gh.io/zerotomerged You might just be able to take the stage at #GitHubUniverse 👀

I'm helping run #ZeroToMergedContest bc maintainer stories need to be heard. Every day you're navigating the impossible - shipping at speed while maintaining excellence. I'll be watching every video! This could land you on the Universe keynote stage. 👉 gh.io/zerotomerged

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Are you part of an open source project that built FAST using GitHub tools? Post a 2min video sharing your story with #ZeroToMergedContest by September 19 and submit it here: gh.io/zerotomerged You might just be able to take the stage at #GitHubUniverse 👀

Remember my Gen Z open source talk at #OSSummit? We published it on the @github blog because y'all haven't stopped talking about it since June 💭 Maintainers under 26 dropped from 25% to 10% since 2021. Meanwhile Gen Z is learning to code on YouTube and running Discord communities... 🧵

MCP? OMG! 🤯 Episode 1 of the GitHub Podcast is here, and we’re talking Model Context Protocol — the open standard that can help keep AI tools from hallucinating (in my use case!) and make them genuinely useful for developers. 🎧 Listen now: gh.io/podcast

Q: What do CSS Zero, anime.js, and Docs have in common? A: They’re all open source projects our hosts are excited about. Join @cassidoo.co, @abbycabs.dev, and @itsthatladydev.bsky.social as they dive into the stories, trends, and culture shaping open source in the GitHub Podcast. gh.io/podcast