I think the real issue here is that maintaining communities of diverse people is hard work. It's not what a lot of maintainers sign-up for originally. It can be

I think the real issue here is that maintaining communities of diverse people is hard work. It's not what a lot of maintainers sign-up for originally. It can be exhausting to try to keep the community aligned to a code of conduct in a way that's fair and allows open discussion. Worst of all, few people want to do this but it comes with the territory of a large open-for-contribution project. Perhaps the solution is for each community to fund a community manager role. Maybe community management as a service would make sense if each individual project doesn't require a full role itself (a startup opportunity perhaps). Does anyone know of any open source projects that currently employ a community manager?