The AsyncAPI Maintainership Program is built around a clear and impactful vision: to transform and upskill open-source contributors into confident maintainers capable of leading and sustaining the future of AsyncAPI projects. More than just a short-term mentorship effort, the program is a strategic initiative focused on fostering long-term project health across the ecosystem through meaningful technical contributions in code, design, documentation, and beyond.
Program Goals
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Grow the Number of Active Maintainers
Empower active contributors to become confident, independent maintainers who can lead, triage, and guide AsyncAPI projects. -
Encourage Long-Term Engagement
Foster deep contributor relationships that extend beyond the program period, encouraging sustainable, long-term involvement. -
Transfer Knowledge and Practices
Enable maintainers to pass on project-specific context, workflows, and best practices to contributors in a structured way. -
Improve Project Scalability & Sustainability Help distribute the project's workload by onboarding more hands to support project maintenance, roadmap execution, and community support.
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Strengthen Community Culture
Promote empathy, communication, and mentorship as essential qualities within the open-source ecosystem.
Program Outcomes
By the end of the program, participants will have:
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Successfully contributed to key issues, features, or processes within the AsyncAPI organization projects.
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Gained practical experience in project maintainability, issue triaging, and release workflows (code-related projects)
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Demonstrated a clear understanding of what it means to be an open-source maintainer, technically and socially.
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Enough knowledge to onboard new aspiring contributors to the AsyncAPI organization, where they can learn, grow, and contribute to exciting projects.
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Built meaningful connections within the AsyncAPI community and developed career-impacting skills.
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For mentors, refined mentorship and coaching abilities, and shared ownership of the project roadmap and responsibilities.
The ultimate outcome is a more resilient and scalable AsyncAPI ecosystem led by a growing network of capable maintainers who care.
