The Linux Foundation Member Summit

In the beginning, open source gained the public’s trust through direct relationships with maintainers, participating in communities, and reliance on curators. Somewhere along the way, the essential role of curators seems to have been forgotten. Sophisticated actors have been systematically seeking to abuse the trust placed in open source, and individual maintainers are not equipped to fend this off - nor should they have to go it alone, if they don’t want to. Let’s gather for a discussion of community-based solutions to this threat to open source.