Dan K. SnelsonA five-question self-assessment to help you plan your 2026 Mac Admin open source contributions
Self-assessment
Your Mac Admin Open Source Journey
An anonymous self-assessment to guide your 2026 open-source contributions.
Rank
Take the above self-assessment to determine your rank from Beneficiary to Jedi-Ninja Maintainer.
Beneficiary
You’re benefiting from open source every day … great time to begin giving back.
Explorer
You’re discovering the ecosystem and starting to find your footing.
Emerging Contributor
You’ve taken meaningful steps — you’re ready for intentional contribution.
Active Contributor
You consistently help improve tools the community relies on.
Jedi-Ninja Maintainer
You’re a force multiplier; thank you for all you do.
Invitation
I find myself hungering and thirsting for just a word of appreciation or of honest evaluation from my superiors and my peers.
I want no praise; I want no flattery; I am seeking only to know if what I gave was acceptable.
— Spencer W. Kimball
Please accept my personal invitation to increase — or, for you Jedi-Ninjas, to maintain — your contributions to the Mac Admin community’s various open-source projects during 2026.
Where do I start?
Start where you are. If you’ve benefited from open source projects and don’t know how to contribute, remember that feedback — any feedback — is a gift.
If you can read and follow directions, you can help. While the preferred time to provide feedback is during beta- and preview-cycles, feedback is welcome at any time; especially if you can reproduce unexpected behavior on-demand (and can document the steps to reproduce the issue).
Your next step
The fact that you’re reading this sentence is a great indication that you’re ready to take the next step, whatever it may be.
From all of us who maintain open source Mac Admin projects, we can’t wait to see where your journey will take you.
