We invite you to join a meetup for upstream maintainers to share with each other the best practices and lessons learned in nurturing open source projects. We plan to discuss:
- Collaboration with your colleagues and other contributors (corporate or private) from all over the world
- Increasing awareness about your OSS projects by presenting, teaching and doing workshops, etc.
- Mentoring new contributors, growing your skillset, helping others become a maintainer
- Best practices for managing, leading projects and building communities
- Community health and what metrics are important for community growth
- Best practices with communication channels, tools and platforms that you use in your community

If you are a project maintainer, be ready to share your project's best practices, but also failures so we can learn from them. And if you are not a maintainer, don’t worry! You are welcome to join as well. Come and learn what it takes to be an open source maintainer and see how you, as a contributor or user, can help them or become one.

In this talk, we will dive into the agile techniques employed in our project. We had the pleasure of starting from scratch and growing into a project used by hundreds every day. We will cover challenges we encountered along the way, such as remote work, planning, tracking tasks, automating tedious actions, team roles, making the biggest impact and more. We will touch on some methodologies from Scrum and Kanban. The biggest highlight will be our system of rotating roles within the team, which means having designated individuals for deployment, communication with the community or leading the Kanban process and rotating these responsibilities each week. We have recently written a few blog posts about this process that works really well for us and will guide you through our journey of getting to this point. Let’s share together the insights, lessons learned and practices for achieving effective collaboration within the development teams! If you are collaborating with others on a project, you may learn something here!