More than 1 billion people are living with mental health disorders, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

In our opensource communities, this sensible topic is rarely mentioned, and even more rarely taken into account seriously. Meanwhile, a lot of developers or OpenSource maintainers suffer from mental health issues related to their activity. This can lead to well-known situations such as burn-out, maintainer's fatigue, job quit, or sometimes to much worse situations.

OpenSource communities is mostly composed of engineers, who are - let's be honest - usually very bad at dealing with social, human, communication or emotional issues. I am one of them, and was also very bad on these topics.

Communication is key. With this presentation, I intend to put the issue on the table so that we can start discussing the matter openly and find ways to improve our community's well-being.

I will present how OpenSource communities consist in specific environments, especially on communication and human relationships.

Then I will give some examples of situations I have seen in OpenSource communities that can lead to well-being issues.

And I will try to give some ideas to improve the situation in the future, on individual and collective levels.