FOSS Backstage 2025

Ruth Cheesley

Ruth is an Open Source advocate with over 20 years of experience using and contributing to many different projects.

Having served on the Community Leadership Team of the Joomla! project and built a full-service digital agency, she now works as Project Lead for Mautic, supporting the community who build and maintain the world’s first Open Source Marketing Automation platform.

Ruth is a lover of cats, a keen runner and flautist (but not at the same time!) and is based in the East of England.


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Session

03-10
16:05
30min
Implementing GitHub's private security issue reporting
Ruth Cheesley

With a month's notice to transition to a new workflow for managing incoming security reports for our open source project, join us to learn how we implemented GitHub's built-in security reporting feature in the Mautic project, and explore the highs and lows of collaborating with researchers, contributors and our security team using this system.

Security
Auditorium