EP 021

Open Source Governance: Who's Actually in Charge?

January 1, 2025 41 minutes
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New Year, new governance drama! We’re diving into the messy world of open source project governance.

Case Studies

  • Rocky Linux: How community projects handle corporate influence
  • Kubernetes: Governance at scale - what works and what doesn’t
  • The JavaScript Ecosystem: When governance doesn’t exist at all

The Good, Bad, and Ugly

What we’ve learned from watching projects succeed and fail at governance over the years.

Practical Governance

For project maintainers: how to set up governance that actually works without killing your project’s momentum.