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Department Of Decentralization

Department of Decentralization is a Berlin-based non-profit collective promoting decentralization and open-source software. It organizes free, donation-funded community events, including hackathons, conferences, meetups, and cultural programming.
Berlin, DE
3 current maintainers3 active leads2 new active leads2 lead step-downs1 lead movement1 early lead departure

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026


Maintainer Intelligence

This view starts from the canonical internal-employee model. A maintainer is an internal employee who merged at least one pull request in a non-fork repository; external contributors, bots, and PR authors are not treated as causal. Active leads have merged within the last three months.

3

Current maintainers

3

Active leads

2

New active leads

2

Lead step-downs

1

Lead movements

1

Early lead departures

Maintainers (6)

@l5ythCurrent employee
PRs merged
3
Internal authors supported
1
Currently active authors
1
First merge
Jan 28, 2026
Last merge
Jul 22, 2026
Active lead

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@kuzdoganCurrent employee
PRs merged
18
Internal authors supported
2
Currently active authors
1
First merge
Feb 26, 2023
Last merge
Jun 10, 2026
Active leadEarly maintainer

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Maintainer Movements (4)

@ligi moved lead merge authority to Devcon.

Confirmed Jul 20, 2026 · Active · Early maintainer

Last source merge Feb 13, 2026 · First destination merge Jul 20, 2026

@ligi moved lead merge authority to Devcon.

Confirmed Aug 20, 2025 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge May 20, 2025 · First destination merge Aug 7, 2025

@kuzdogan moved lead merge authority to Sourcify.

Confirmed Sep 16, 2024 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Aug 24, 2023 · First destination merge Sep 16, 2024

@ligi moved lead merge authority to Devcon.

Confirmed Jul 11, 2019 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Apr 11, 2019 · First destination merge Jul 8, 2019