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A
This
year,
we've
had
hundreds
of
conversations
with
maintainer,
x'
and
open
source
contributors
and
I
actually
have
a
practice
that
I'm
really
loving
right
now,
which
is
I
personally,
spend
a
couple
of
hours.
Every
Friday
having
video
calls
with
maintainer
zuv
big,
open
source
projects
and
small
open
source
projects.
Some
of
you
I've,
talked
to
on
Fridays
before
it's
become
one
of
the
favorite
parts
of
my
week.
B
Thanks
NAT
hi,
I'm,
Devin
and
I'm
the
product
manager
of
the
open
source
economy
team.
Here
at
github,
our
work
is
focused
on
maintainer,
x'
and
building
tools
for
the
open
source
community
to
thrive,
as
NAT
showed
earlier.
We're
all
connected
the
world
runs
on
open
source.
None
of
it
would
be
possible
without
the
global
team
of
maintainer,
x'
developers,
designers,
researchers,
writers
and
more
who
devote
their
time
to
pushing
technology
forward
like
the
scientists
on
stage
earlier
today.
B
Let
me
introduce
you
to
a
few
open-source
maintainer
x'
who's
built
software
that
you've
likely
used
yourself,
meat,
mariotta,
she's,
a
Python
core
developer
from
Vancouver,
and
she
has
a
ritual
of
taking
an
ice
cream
selfie
after
each
conference
talk
she
gives
and
here's
fattie
he's
from
Ankara
Turkey
and
he's
the
creator
of
MgO
thottie
works
from
home.
So
when
he
needs
a
break,
he
gets
to
play
with
his
adorable
son
Alper
and
meet
Henry
who's
based
in
New,
York
City
and
left
his
job
last
year
to
work
on
open
source.
B
B
This
is
the
core
of
what
we're
about
we're
here
to
support
the
humans
behind
human
progress,
in
that
spirit,
were
thrilled
to
announce
a
brand
new
feature
of
github
I'm,
so
excited
to
share
that
today,
we're
launching
the
beta
of
github
sponsors
a
new
way
to
financially
support
the
developers.
You
depend
on.
B
B
To
start,
let's
sponsor
mariotta,
we'll
head
to
her
github
profile
and
you'll,
see
there's
a
new
sponsor
button
right
on
her
profile,
I'm,
a
huge
space
nerd,
so
I
think
it's
awesome
that
her
contributions
to
Python
played
a
role
in
creating
the
black
hole
image
when
I
see
that
button
I'm
super
excited
that
I
can
now
show
her
my
support
clicking.
It
takes
me
to
her
sponsorship
page
here.
She
gets
to
decide
how
to
represent
herself
and
how
you
can
best
support
her.
B
We've
also
built
this
into
existing
github
workflows,
so
that
it's
seen
wants
to
support
developers.
I'm
really
excited
about
this
because
it'll
surface
developers
that
you
can
sponsor
directly
from
the
conversations
where
you
collaborate
with
them.
For
instance,
perhaps
Patti
has
been
really
helpful
as
I
make
my
contributions
to
Van
Gogh.
Imagine
I've
merged
my
first
PR
into
the
project
and
I
want
to
thank
him
for
all
his
help.
B
I
can
jump
straight
into
the
sponsorship
page
from
the
hover
card
on
the
PR,
but
maybe
you
want
to
support
a
project,
not
a
person
to
do
that.
We've
also
added
support
for
a
new
file
called
funding
gamal.
That
makes
it
easy
to
support
the
project.
However,
the
maintainer
is
see
fit
when
funding
amel
is
added
to
a
projects
master
bank
branch,
a
new
sponsor
button,
will
appear
at
the
top
of
the
repo
clicking.
The
button
opens
a
natively
rendered
view
of
the
funding
links
listed
in
that
file.
B
It
can
showcase
the
sponsor
the
'get
of
sponsors,
profiles
of
the
developers
who
contribute
to
the
project,
or
it
can
also
link
to
other
popular
funding
models,
including
open
collective
community
bridge
tide,
lifts
and
more
open
source,
is
the
heart
of
github.
The
developers
who
build
our
shared
digital
infrastructure
are
what
make
this
community
so
strong
as
a
thank
you
for
these
valuable
contributions.
Github
sponsors
charges
zero
platform
fees.
When
you
support
the
work
of
other
developers,.
B
B
Github
sponsors
also
supports
payouts
and
all
around
the
world
in
every
country
where
github
does
business
over
the
course
of
the
summer.
We're
excited
to
be
working
with
strength
to
scale
of
this
beta,
we're
all
part
of
a
global
software
team.
Expanding
opportunities
to
participate
on
that
team
is
at
the
core
of
our
mission.
So
we
are
proud
to
make
this
tool
available
to
developers
worldwide.
B
B
B
Github
sponsors
is
one
more
way
to
contribute
to
open
source
financially
supporting
the
people
who
build
and
maintain
it,
starting
today
and
in
github
user
can
sponsor
an
open
source
developer
in
the
beta.
If
you're
interested
in
getting
sponsored
for
your
own
work,
you
can
apply
at
github
comm,
slash
sponsors
we're
launching
small
and
simple,
but
our
mission
is
fast
to
expand
opportunities
to
participate
in
and
build
on
open-source
we're
here
to
serve
the
developer
community
and
we're
eagerly
listening
for
your
input.
For
what
you'd
like
to
see
and
get
up
sponsors.
A
So
please,
let
us
know
what
you
think
now
Devin
mentioned,
that
one
of
the
great
features
of
github
sponsors
is
that
we
cover
all
of
your
payment
processing
fees
for
the
first
year
and
that
there
are
no
platform
fees
so
that
a
hundred
percent
of
your
contribution
goes
directly
to
the
developer
that
you
sponsor
and
a
hundred
percent
is
amazing.
But
we
were
thinking
about
it
and
we
realized
that
what's
better
than
a
hundred
percent
is
two
hundred
percent.
A
This
enables
us
to
really
jumpstart
the
github
sponsors
program
and
boost
the
contributions
that
you
make
while
still
giving
you
the
empowerment
and
the
freedom
to
choose
who,
in
the
open-source
community
you
want
to
support.
So
we're
really
excited
about
this.
Okay,
we
covered
a
lot
of
ground
today.
So
let's
just
step
back
and
do
a
brief
recap.
Shanku
talked
to
you
about
some
of
the
new
security
features
that
we've
released,
including
maintainer
security,
advisories
security
policies
and
together
with
grey
the
acquisition
of
dependable,
which
were
really
excited
about
we've
been
saying
internally.
A
The
depend
bot
is
a
little
bit
like
a
Roomba
for
your
code
and
it
comes
out
and
cleans
it
up
for
you
and
then
dana
has
showed
you.
Some
new
capabilities
for
enterprises
from
enterprise
accounts
to
internal
repos,
to
new
roles,
the
triage
and
maintained
role,
which
will
be
really
useful
for
open
source
communities
as
well
and
permissions
and
the
organizational
insights.
And
then
we
heard
from
Kristian
and
Sebastian
at
Shopify
about
the
best
practices
that
they
are
using
and
then
Devin
showed
you
github
sponsors
and
we
talked
about
the
sponsors
matching
fund.
A
Additionally,
just
two
weeks
ago,
we
announced
the
github
package
registry,
which
gives
you
a
single
place
to
store
your
code
and
your
packages
behind
a
single
login
and
then
coming
up
later
the
summer.
We
will
have
some
more
news
to
share
about
github
actions,
as
I
mentioned
before
at
github.
Our
mission
is
to
build
the
global
platform
for
developer
collaboration,
and
that
really
means
that
our
job
is
to
serve
you
right
to
make
your
life
easier,
to
make
you
more
productive
to
help
you
connect
to
the
developers
and
contributors
who
make
your
work
possible.