Scaling Open Source Up and Down — Glyph Lefkowitz (PyBay 2025)

I've maintained a variety of open source libraries for 25 years now. Some of these libraries are extremely popular. Some are downloaded millions of times per month; some thousands of times, some tens of times. The experience at these different scales is very different. Some skills are seamlessly transferrable, but other habits need to be opposite at different extremes of the spectrum.What do you need to start a project? And how should it change as your audience grows? For more information, see https://pybay.org/ Follow us on LinkedIn   / pybay