What is the ReadME Project

The ReadME Project amplifies the voices of the open source community: the maintainers, contributors, and developers whose powerful contributions move the world forward every day. In lifting up their personal and professional challenges, stories, insights, and lessons learned, we hope to continue to build a more sustainable open source ecosystem, together. Learn more about The ReadME Project

What is an open source community?

People often think coding is a solitary activity, but it’s actually the world’s largest community effort led by a small group of open source maintainers and teams. These invisible heroes often work endless hours without funding, support, or thanks, and the ratio of consumers to maintainers can be as unbalanced as 2,000 to 1.

The ReadME Project

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Meet the people building the software you love. The ReadME Project amplifies the voices of the developer community: the maintainers, leaders, and teams whose contributions move the world forward every day. Learn more The ReadME Project You can’t perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.

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Women in Software Development

How Python is building a welcoming community for women

Creating opportunity for women in development

Building a globally diverse, welcoming Python community

Setting the right bar for open source standards

Making accessibility in tech the rule, not the exception

Chasing challenges to ship developer solutions

Community Stories

Learning to code against all odds

When open source is symbiotic with your business

Taking a chance on others, and yourself

My differences are my superpowers

Feature Articles

How Global Forest Watch uses open source to fight deforestation

How the open source community came together to fight COVID-19

Community Contributions

Walking the walk: bringing end-to-end automation and testing to internal teams

Transforming productivity with a ‘whole product’ CI/CD pipeline

Boosting speed and scalability with continuous deployments

Connected by collaboration: unifying DevOps and open source

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