Who Is Holding Up the Internet? Open Source, Data & the People Behind Your Phone

Every time your phone shows the right time, opens a photo or loads a website, it relies on open source software. Much of that software is looked after by a surprisingly small number of people, often unpaid and working in their free time.

At this meetup, we’ll gather around the data story “The people holding up the internet” (from sheets.works). The piece digs into the history of the code behind billions of devices and asks a simple question: who actually keeps it running?

What we’ll talk about:

- How much of our digital infrastructure depends on just one or two maintainers
- What can go…

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