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Open source developers are often taken for granted. They spend their nights and weekends toiling away, often in obscurity, to bring developers and their companies the tools and frameworks they've come to depend on. Smart companies are beginning to realize that these critical pieces of infrastructure are too important to trust to an effectively volunteer staff; they want ready access to the developers of their tooling and their skills.

In recent years it has become increasingly common for companies to bring strategic open source developers on full-time. The developers are ideally afforded the opportunity to maintain the pace of their work on their open source projects, but they're also around to lend support and mentorship, and to assist with complex technical problems related to their area of expertise.