In his reflections, Brewster Kahle mentions his goal of creating “a library available to anybody, anywhere in the world.” He doesn’t mention, though, the costs of making that library available to the world for free or the fact that the Internet Archive accepts donations. So I will:
Donations are fantastic but if you have engineering (or project management, design, etc) skills spending just 1 hour a week contributing to their open source goes a very long way!
Open Library in particular has a very active repo with lots of volunteers, a weekly community call, and a rather accessible codebase. https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary
If anyone knows webpack well would LOVE to have this dev-facing issue resolve to auto reload CSS https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4955