Seth Larson | Upstream

Seth Larson

Maintainer
urllib3

Panel: Top findings from the 2023 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer report

1:55 PM - 2:55 PM EST

We just released our new 2023 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer report with findings from our new survey of over 300 open source maintainers.

Join Tidelift CMO and resident data nerd Chris Grams as he tees up the most interesting data points for discussion with an illustrious panel including Al Gillen, Group VP, software development and open source of IDC, Python maintainer Seth Larson, and Tidelift VP of product Lauren Hanford.The panel will discuss:

What impact does money have on open source maintainers' work today?
What role should money have and how should organizations think about maintainer compensation?
Are paid open source maintainers more likely to complete important security and maintenance tasks than unpaid maintainers?

And wherever else the conversation takes them!

About Seth Larson

Seth Larson maintains and contributes to many open source projects, especially in the HTTP and networking space for Python. Most notably he is the lead maintainer of urllib3, an HTTP client library that is the most downloaded package on the Python Package Index with over 4 billion downloads. In 2019 he was awarded the Google Open Source Peer Bonus for his contributions to urllib3.

He is a Senior Software Engineer at Elastic working as maintainer of the Python API clients for services like Elasticsearch, Elastic Enterprise Search, and more. He's also an advocate for Python and Elastic through engaging with the community, attending conferences, recording live webinars, and writing blog posts.