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Clarvia Welcomes Its First Core Open-Source Contributor

Published on 25/05/2026 by Tommi Lindfors (contact@clarvia.org)


Clarvia welcomed its first core open-source contributor after six valuable contributions. The milestone shows how volunteers can take on meaningful work and help shape public-interest digital infrastructure.

We are thrilled to officially welcome Hiren Gajjar to the Clarvia team as our first GitHub Outside Collaborator. After contributing six high-quality pull requests across both public repositories - including source verification research, accessibility improvements, SEO structured data, and a custom 404 page - we have upgraded Hiren to official write access to help shape the future of the codebase. Clarvia is built as open public-interest infrastructure, and having a dedicated volunteer contributor validates that this model works. We are incredibly grateful for the support and excited to see what we build together.