#maintainathon — Public Fediverse posts

We brought a unique perspective, shaped by our role as the leading public institution in Europe dedicated to investing in critical digital infrastructure. Making our approach accessible so that other institutions can adapt and build upon it when considering their own initiatives was a priority throughout the week.

Read our reflections in our latest blog post: https://www.sovereign.tech/news/un-open-source-week-2026

#UNOpenSourceWeek #maintainathon #PublicDigitalInfrastructure

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It is about trust, relationships, incentives, and the capacity to keep essential systems healthy over time.

In the wrap-up session at the end of the day, Adriana Groh spoke about how the unique value of the #maintainathon was not only in the individual sessions, but rather in the exchanges that took place: people comparing experiences, sharing practical approaches of what worked for them, and finding others facing the same challenges.

We were also glad to welcome Parliamentary State Secretary Thomas Jarzombek, who joined for part of the #maintainathon and took time to speak with some maintainers from our delegation.

The second #Maintainathon at #UNOpenSourceWeek brought together more than 100 participants across two tracks and 15 sessions: maintainers, governments, NGOs, researchers, OSPOs, and #opensource communities speaking openly with one another about what it actually takes to sustain critical digital infrastructure.

Two tracks are run in parallel: the Technical Maintenance room brings maintainers together to share knowledge on the practice of open source maintenance. The Capacity & Stewardship room is focused on how organizations, institutions, and governments can better support critical open source technologies. #maintainathon #unopensourceweek

The #maintainathon is underway at #UNOpenSourceWeek 2026 in New York. For the second year, the Sovereign Tech Agency and the UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies are convening #opensource #maintainers and institutional actors to work on the challenge of maintaining increasingly complex critical digital systems.

What if you had access to all publicly available source code? At #UNOpenSourceWeek, Bastien Guerry @bzg joins the #maintainathon today at noon to dig into using & contributing to the @swheritage archive.
https://www.sovereign.tech/news/maintain-a-thon-2026
#OpenSource #PublicCode #DPG

Building on last year’s success, we are bringing the #maintainathon back to #UNOpenSourceWeek 🇺🇳

Together with the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies, the Sovereign Tech Agency is hosting the maintain-a-thon, facilitated and led by the experts from our delegation @matk @miketheman @yeq @leahawasser @mxn @hestenet @sethmlarson Thilo Borgmann and Jaime Rodriguez-Guerra

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For the second year, we are bringing a delegation of #OpenSource #maintainers to #UNOpenSourceWeek in New York.

The experts who actually build and maintain critical digital infrastructure are rarely represented in the international conversations about how that infrastructure is sustained and maintained.

This delegation will change that: bringing practitioner perspectives to our second annual #maintainathon and the full week of events, panels, and exchanges. https://www.sovereign.tech/news/un-open-source-week-2026-maintainer-delegation

#DigiArchMaintainathon motivated me to finally write a blog post about the integration of #futhark code into #rstats packages. I've done this last year for my ggpointgrid package and wanted to document the workflow since then.

Link: https://nevrome.de/blog/posts/2026-01-12-futhark-in-ggpointgrid.html

This is a bit nerdy, admittedly, but maybe still interesting for people that come to R from a #functionalprogramming background. At least I myself will need this again eventually, so I'm glad that the #maintainathon gave me the push.