Maintainer Week is finally here and we’re excited to make this an annual thing! If Maintainer Week is new to you, check out episode #442 with Josh Simmons and Kara Sowles.

Today we’re talking Brett Cannon. Brett is Dev Manager of the Python Extension for VS Code, Python Steering Council Member, and core team member for Python. He recently shared a blog post The social contract of open source, so we invited Brett to join us for Maintainer Week to discuss this topic in detail.

Thank a maintainer on us! We’re printing a limited run t-shirt that’s free for maintainers, and all you gotta do is thank them, today!

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Featuring:

• Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!