👋 Hello, Hello! I’m Abby (she/her)
I lead open source maintainer programs at GitHub, helping the open source ecosystem thrive — now and into the future. My work focuses on building sustainable, inclusive communities and developing the next generation of open source leaders.
More about me:
- 🌍 Founded Mozilla Open Leaders, a global mentorship program that supported 600+ open projects
- 🧠 Led open source engagement for Mozilla’s Trustworthy AI efforts and built digital public goods initiatives with organizations like UNICEF
- 🛠 Built open science prototypes as Mozilla Science’s lead developer & earlier, for WormBase
- 🎤 Speaker and thought leader featured at events like OSCON, Strange Loop, SciPy, and EuroSciPy
- ✍🏽 Founding editor of the Journal of Open Source Software, organizer for SustainOSS, and board member of the OpenJS Foundation
- 🙌🏽 Named in 100 Awesome Women in Open Source, State of the Octoverse, and Faces of Open Source
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📬 How to reach me:
- @abbycabs on Twitter (or X)
- abbycabs [at] gmail.com
📸 Photo credit: Faces of Open Source / Peter Adams