Lorna Mitchell has a post to her site sharing a "call for help" related to the open source project she's a lead on: http://joind.in (a popular conference rating/feedback site in wide use across the PHP community). In her post she asks for help with the project and how you can help continue the success of the project/service.

This post is about the open source project, Joind.in. Joind.in is a tool to allow attendees at conferences or other events to offer immediate public feedback to speakers and organisers at those events. Joind.in is an open source project run by volunteers. For the last 6 years I've been a maintainer of this project, following a year or two of being a contributor. Over the last few months, myself and my comaintainer Rob Allen have been mostly inactive due to other commitments, and we have agreed it's time to step aside and let others take up the baton.

She then lists some of the things the project needs help in including:

• manually check and approve events (the volume of spam we get is surprising, events are manually approved)
• review and merge pull requests across the repos in [the project's] Github organisation
• maintain the issue tracker, keeping it tidy and tagging issues, replicating bugs
• managing the @joindin twitter account - responding to questions and we often like to tweet to promote events and CfPs as well

She ends the post with an update for those that wonder if this is "abandoning" the project, reinforcing that focuses have shifted more to "keeping the lights on" rather than abandoning the project overall.

Open source is most powerful when we pursue our passions and my journey as a speaker and event host over the last 8 years or so would have looked very different without joind.in. [...] If the project isn't important, it will keep on winding down. If it is important, the community will pick it up - this wasn't originally my project, and now it is time to hand it forward.