Franck Nijhof—better known as Frenck—is one of those maintainers who ended up at the center of a massive open source project not because he chased the spotlight, but because he helped hold together one of the most active, culturally important, and technically demanding open source ecosystems on the planet. As a lead of Home Assistant and a GitHub Star, Frenck guides the project that didn’t just grow. It exploded. This year’s Octoverse report confirms it: Home Assistant was one of the fastest-gro...