“Growing up, I was a bit of a field marshal,” Megan Byrd-Sanicki, 2020 Women in Open Source Community Award winner, says with a smile. “I was always the one pulling classmates together. ‘We’re going to play a game. Come on, everyone, I’ll teach you the rules.’ I’d also have an eye to the sidelines, trying to identify who wasn’t being included and how I could draw them in.”
