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Henry Zhu, Maintainer of Babel

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Jul 30, 2018

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Today, Henry Zhu, the lead maintainer of Babel, discusses what it's like to work on a large and important open source project. Henry gets into how Babel receives funding, how corporations are involved in open source, stewardship of an open source project, mental and physical health, and not compromising his values.

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Jul 30, 2018

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