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Looks like the "founder" is https://github.com/ryankirkman. Doesn't look like he's MIA but rather distracted / doing something else.

No activity since Oct 3. I wouldn't draw any strong conclusion from this in either direction.

Looks like he made contributions to a private repository on Oct 25.

You are right, I missed that. One can clearly see it in the punch card chart.