Author

Books by Nadia Eghbal

Nadia Eghbal (now Nadia Asparouhova) is a researcher and writer who spent several years at GitHub and the Ford Foundation studying open source software and its economics. Working in Public began as a report she wrote for GitHub on the state of open source maintainership and was expanded into a book published by Stripe Press in 2020. She has also written on philanthropy, internet culture, and the economics of creative work. Her research on open source sustainability helped establish the conversation about maintainer burnout and the free-rider problem in software infrastructure that has since become a mainstream concern.