Open Source Workforce: The State of Maintainers

Organizations from Fortune 100 enterprises to small businesses rely on open source software to develop their applications. Yet, over half of open source maintainers, whose work is critical to the health of software supply chains, work for free. As reliance on open source software grows, Donald Fischer, co-founder and CEO of Tidelift, and Brian Fox, CTO and co-founder at Sonatype, will discuss the threat created by ignoring the needs of overworked and underpaid maintainers against the backdrop of the rapidly-scaling open source ecosystem and increased attacks on the software supply chain.