Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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There's a billion talks on how to get new contributors into a project, what's less covered is how to grow these new contributors into maintainers. This requires a completely different set of skills and a bit of manipulation.

This talk covers how to spot future maintainers from the crowd and how to give them space to grow.

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