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We recently released this year’s state of the open source maintainer report, with 12 big headlines about the data we collected from over 400 open source maintainers. Some findings align with what we know already, but there are some new and surprising stats!

The explosive details about the recent xz utils backdoor hack, in which a volunteer open source maintainer was manipulated over a period of years into giving commit access to their project, have sent shudders across all open source communities.

Watch this webinar when Lauren will go over the ways to reduce your organizations reliance on “bad” open source packages and will review what “bad” open source package really means.

Gartner’s Hype Cycle reports are meant to help understand the commercial viability of and maturity timeline of new technology trends.

As part of an open source software strategy, organizations are increasingly hosting curated OSS package management and artifact repositories internally to mitigate risk and reduce developer friction.

Guest speaker IDC Research Director Jim Mercer shares insights from recent IDC research into how organizations can safely and effectively use open source for building applications.

Learn how to proactively reduce security risk from bad open source packages and use open source with confidence with the Tidelift Subscription.

The easiest way to avoid having to replace problematic open source dependencies is to not bring them in at all. Learn more in our newest inforgraphic.

Hundreds of maintainers responded with thoughts about how they fund their work, what they enjoy about being a maintainer, what they don’t like so much, along with a host of other interesting insights.

Cisco’s internal development teams, using Corona enhanced with open source metadata provided by Tidelift, can now access insightful package metadata and gain additional insights into vulnerabilities.

Maintainer Jordan Harband used income from Tidelift and its customers to consistently maintain over 450 JavaScript packages during good times and bad

Hear from a Tidelift customer who worked with Tidelift and its maintainer partners to save time and money while strengthening the resilience of the open source powering their applications.

Our annual maintainer impact report shines a light on the most current and compelling evidence of the positive outcomes organizations can achieve when they invest directly in their open source software supply chain by paying maintainers.

More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, including how they fund it, who pays for it, and what kinds of security, maintenance, and documentation practices they have in place today or would consider in the future.

Hundreds of maintainers responded with thoughts about how they fund their work, what they enjoy about being a maintainer, what they don’t like so much, along with a host of other interesting insights.

Learn about how development teams can use Tidelift to minimize rework, boost productivity, and increase application resilience, by helping teams monitor and remediate risk from the open source in use at their organization.

With support from Tidelift, urllib3 maintainers have been able to improve security practices, including adding two-factor authentication and automating release processes. Their efforts led to urllib3 achieving an impressive 9.6/10 score on the OpenSSF Scorecard.

Discover how Tidelift empowers application developers to confidently use open source packages. Tidelift partners with the maintainers of thousands of popular open source packages, ensuring industry-leading secure software development practices.

Luis Villa of Tidelift joins the show to discuss GitHub Copilot and the implications of an AI pair programmer from a legal perspective.

How do you define open source software? What are the challenges an open source project and maintainers face?

In this episode we’re shinning our maintainer spotlight on Ned Batchelder.

What we got wrong about crypto, what we might get right about AI video

In this week’s episode of the Upstream podcast, Luis Villa sits with Annie Rauwerda of Depths of Wikipedia and Sumana Harihareswara, stand-up comedian and founder of Changeset Consulting.

In this week’s episode of the Upstream podcast, Luis Villa sits with Kellan Elliot-McCrea of Adobe and Adam Jacon, CEO of System Initiative. Should software development teams be a team sport or an orchestra rather than a factory?