Community Resilience Sustains Free Software

When core free‑software infrastructure falters (datacenter outages, supply interruptions), volunteer and contributor networks often provide the rapid recovery bedrock—through hackathons, mirror hosting, and distributed troubleshooting—keeping public‑good software running. Short, intensive community events both repair code and signal the political and operational value of maintaining distributed contributor capacity. — This underscores that digital public goods depend not only on funding or corporate hosting but on active civic communities, so policy on software procurement, cybersecurity, and infrastructure should recognize and support community stewardship as resilience strategy.