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Volunteer Senior Open Source Maintainer role offered with no pay and global responsibilities
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A volunteer, unpaid Senior Open Source Maintainer position is being advertised to oversee a widely used library, handling roadmap, releases, security, and community duties.
The role demands full ownership of a critical library without financial compensation, which may affect long-term sustainability and contributor retention. Handling security tasks such as CVE patching, SBOM generation, and OpenSSF Scorecard compliance directly impacts downstream software safety. Enterprises relying on the library may see changes in support quality and response times based on the maintainer’s availability.
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The position is volunteer with $0 compensation and permanent term.
Responsibilities include managing releases, security advisories, CI pipeline, and community support across multiple platforms.
Success is measured by metrics such as release cadence, time to patch vulnerabilities, OpenSSF Scorecard, and community sentiment.
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The posting announces a permanent volunteer position for a Senior Open Source Maintainer with zero monetary compensation. The role is based in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA and reports to the open-source community rather than a traditional manager. It is described as a rare opportunity to take full ownership of one of the most widely deployed libraries in the ecosystem. The maintainer will act as the primary technical owner and public face of the project.
The maintainer must provide personal hardware, a reliable internet connection, and test environments for all supported platforms. Availability is required to overlap core business hours across the AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions. The role expects handling of time-sensitive security matters outside normal working hours. Responsibilities include managing releases, maintaining the CI pipeline, reviewing contributions, triaging issues, and supporting users on GitHub, Discord, Slack, Stack Overflow, Mastodon, Bluesky, and email.
Success will be measured by GitHub stars, time to first response on issues and pull requests, release cadence and mean time to patch for disclosed vulnerabilities, open issue and stale pull request backlog, dependency freshness, OpenSSF Scorecard result and other automated project scoring, community sentiment across public channels, downstream adoption, and bus factor. The maintainer must keep dependencies current, act on automated update pull requests, and ensure compatibility across all current runtimes, operating systems, and architectures. Additional duties involve producing SBOMs, VEX statements, signed provenance attestations, maintaining reproducible builds, and coordinating advisories, CVE records, disclosure timelines, and researcher credits. The role also includes advising enterprise legal teams on licensing, patent, warranty, and export control matters, administering domains, trademarks, signing keys, cloud accounts, and social media, and preparing grant applications and quarterly reports for funders.
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