To the Moon and back: Archiving my dream open source project

Track:
Ethics, Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Legal
Type:
Talk
Level:
beginner
Duration:
30 minutes

Abstract

I developed poliastro, an open source library for interactive Astrodynamics in Python, for almost a decade.

Seemingly everything was going well: GitHub stars were going up, I got a regular stream of grant money, users were happy, some companies were using it...

And then at one point I decided to step down as a maintainer. What happened?