The author of the text, Raffaele, is a Senior Product Designer at Strapi, and he's working on designing an open-source project's marketplace. The goal is to create a place where developers can showcase their plugins and users can find qualitative and secure plugins quickly and easily. To achieve this, they focused on three areas: providing relevant information, highlighting trust in the plugin authors, and using numbers to compare plugins. They also plan to implement a review process to highlight trustworthy plugins, use a rating system with comments, and provide clear labels for different types of plugins. The long-term strategy is to enable monetization opportunities for community members, empowering them to build sustainable businesses out of Strapi.