Awesome Maintainers 
Talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer
- @alyssais, Homebrew
- "Why I helped maintain Homebrew" (video)
- @amjith, pgcli
- "Maintainer Stories: Amjith Ramanujam" (video)
- @antirez, Redis
- "The struggles of an open source maintainer" (post)
- @ariya, PhantomJS
- "Maintainer Stories: Ariya Hidayat" (interview)
- @ashfurrow, Moya
- "Building Open Source Communities" (slides)
- @bbatsov, Rubocop
- "Interview with Bozhidar Batsov: The Creator’s Thoughts on RuboCop and the Ruby Style Guide" (post)
- @boneskull, Mocha
- "Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout" (interview)
- @brettcannon, Python
- "The give and take of open source" (video)
- "Maintainer Stories: Brett Cannon" (interview)
- "Setting expectations for open source participation" (post)
- "Why I took October off from OSS volunteering" (post)
- @brianc, node-postgres
- "Creating and maintaining node-postgres solo" (interview)
- @BurntSushi, Rust libraries
- "My FOSS Story" (post)
- @ceejbot, Entropic, npm
- "The economics of open source" (video, post)
- @colcarroll, PyMC3
- "Two Years of Open Source" (slides/post)
- @ctb & @mr-c, khmer
- "Channeling Community Contributions to Scientific Software: A Sprint Experience" (paper)
- "Walking the Talk: Adopting and Adapting Sustainable Scientific Software Development processes in a Small Biology Lab" (paper)
- @danielbachhuber, wp-cli
- "Experiments and the Economics of Open Source" (interview)
- "My condolences, you're now the maintainer of a popular open source project" (video, post)
- @danvet, Linux drm-intel
- "Maintainers Don't Scale" (video, slides, post)
- "Burning Down the Castle" (video, post)
- @dhh, Rails
- "Open source beyond the market" (video, post)
- @dominictarr, scuttlebot and others
- "Statement on event-stream compromise" (post)
- @emilyemorehouse, Python
- "My Path to Becoming a Python Core Developer" (video)
- @ericholscher, Read the Docs