How to get legacy open source projects unstuck You depend on scores of open source applications, frameworks, and libraries. One hasn't released for years. Another is struggling with a big rewrite or a difficult maintainer. How do you get a legacy OSS project unstuck? Especially if you don't already maintain it? I've done it and I'll share how. I've helped get several OSS projects unstuck. I'll share success stories (one only took 15 hours of work), and I'll discuss the 5 major ways OSS projects get stuck (strategy, team, interfacing, workflow, and money) and how to address each. And yes, a contributor who's never worked on the project before can be the catalyst that revives it or gets a long-delayed release out the door. You'll come away from this talk with steps you can take to rescue and renew OSS projects - regardless of language, framework, or platform.