Primary Maintainer

The role

Help steward OpenOnyx as an open-source project: review technical direction, improve contributor flow, keep releases healthy, and protect the local-first product philosophy.

What you'll work on

• Review pull requests and help contributors understand the architecture.
• Keep the project aligned with local-first, Markdown-first, open-source principles.
• Help triage issues, plan releases, and improve maintainer documentation.
• Identify fragile systems and turn them into clear, testable, durable code paths.
• Make technical decisions in the open with enough context for contributors to follow.

What we're looking for

• You should be comfortable reading and reviewing TypeScript across frontend, Electron, and tooling code.
• You understand how open-source communities work and can give direct, respectful feedback.
• You can balance product taste with engineering reliability.
• You care about user-owned files, privacy, and software that remains useful over time.

Nice to have

• Experience maintaining an Electron or desktop application.
• Experience with release automation, code signing, packaging, or CI.
• Experience with knowledge tools, Markdown editors, or graph-based interfaces.

How we work

OpenOnyx is open-source-first, local-first, and product-minded. We value direct communication, careful implementation, and ownership over vague process.

How to apply

Start a GitHub Discussion with context on your open-source work, the parts of OpenOnyx you would improve first, and links to relevant projects or pull requests.