[$] Consider the maintainer
The free software community tends to focus its spotlight on developers and users while paying rather less attention to the maintainers that keep our projects going. Nadia Eghbal spent a year and a half studying how the community works, and has concluded that we have a problem with maintainership; her 2017 linux.conf.au keynote was dedicated to explaining the problem and how we might want to deal with it. But first, she talked about lobsters.