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(I work at Netlify) The most exciting thing in this announcement for me is the $1 million committed to open source project sponsorship. More companies that rel
by ascorbic 5y ago
(I work at Netlify)
The most exciting thing in this announcement for me is the $1 million committed to open source project sponsorship. More companies that rely on OSS should use some of their funding like this.
- ghuntley 5y agoGeoff here from Gitpod. I agree. > Gitpod has created an open-source sustainability fund and allocated an initial amount of USD 30,000 towards securing our open-source supply chain by paying open-source maintainers. I often wonder what the future would look like if these high achievers that our digital society is built upon were empowered to become independent artists. If just one of those people can help more people better understand a technology or improve the developer experience for an entire ecosystem what is the worth/value of that and why isn’t our industry doing that yet? https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-open-source-sustainability-fund https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-open-source-sustainability...
- iamgopal 5y agoHow about co-operative like structure for open source ?
- pistoriusp 5y agoTotally agree! I think open-source will be a viable career path in the next few years. One where you don't have to join a company to get paid, but can rather pave your own way. Of course, you now have investors and you have to keep them happy, but you don't have to give up your autonomy entirely.
- SNosTrAnDbLe 5y agoShout out to Netlify. I use it to power my personal webpage using Jekyll and its a delight to work with and the documentation is spot on. The deployment is very straightforward and gives me a good amount of control.