# Seeking More Maintainers

**URL:** <https://discuss.openedx.org/t/seeking-more-maintainers/13823>\
**Category:** Blog\
**Created:** [August 30, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/seeking-more-maintainers/13823 "2024-08-30T12:11:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/e/e0015f89e879bc75925b71fd11133ab15fe98297.png) [@system](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/seeking-more-maintainers/13823/1 "2024-08-30T12:11:31Z")

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Originally published at: [Seeking More Maintainers - Open edX](https://openedx.org/blog/seeking-more-maintainers/)  
   
The Open edX Project is seeking more maintainers. The term “maintainer” refers to an individual or group of people who serve as leaders for a given component (a service or library composed of code and hosted on GitHub) of the Open edX platform. Maintainers provide both technical and community management. Historically, 2U has been the…

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**Author:** ![antoviaque](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/antoviaque/32/32_2.png) [@antoviaque](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/antoviaque)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/seeking-more-maintainers/13823/2 "2024-08-30T14:30:02Z")

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This is important! 👍

Thank you for writing about this @feanil. We definitely need more members of the community to step up to help with the maintenance, we have a lot of gap to cover still from the maintainer roles 2U is quitting. It’s a good occasion to show that we can manage this change as a community - and for community members to have more impact on the Open edX project. So please read what Feanil wrote, and consider picking up a repo and becoming a maintainer of a part of the project. 🙏