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Actually, in all projects I've been involved in I've gotten more than enough thank you emails. Not to mention hooks for consulting gigs (which I dislike and _ra
by inglor 9y ago
Actually, in all projects I've been involved in I've gotten more than enough thank you emails. Not to mention hooks for consulting gigs (which I dislike and _rarely_ do), conference invites and job offers.
Open source has been _tremendously_ cost-effective for me. I do it for fun and because I genuinely like building open tools people like using.
This is me https://github.com/benjamingr https://github.com/benjamingr https://stackoverflow.com/users/1348195/benjamin-gruenbaum https://stackoverflow.com/users/1348195/benjamin-gruenbaum - I have done some work but there are _a lot_ of people who have made bigger contributions than me.
Wondering if other people feel the same way or not. I _do_ give around ~30$ a month on patreon to projects I like just as a nice "thank you for maintaining this".
- amelius 9y ago> conference invites and job offers. Don't we all get spammed by these, regardless of where we work? Also, conference invites usually cost money rather than return money.
- inglor 9y agoConference speaking invites usually cover the hotel and flight fares (in all honesty, I couldn't really afford attending otherwise). Some conferences also offer to do paid workshops which are a big factor too.
- ghaff 9y agoBoth you and the parent are right. A lot of conferences will cover your main travel costs for a speaking invite. But there are often other travel-associated costs so it's usually not really free if it's out of your own pocket. Conference speaking is often worth it if it's effectively part of your job that someone else is paying for or (selectively) if the exposure for marketing yourself is worth it.
- billmalarky 9y agoThanks for working on bluebird, it's a great library :-)