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Thanks for creating and maintaining BookStack. My company has used it for around three years, and recently integrated it with Okta for SSO. It’s fast, simple to

by shdisi 5y ago

Thanks for creating and maintaining BookStack. My company has used it for around three years, and recently integrated it with Okta for SSO. It’s fast, simple to use, and the recent search improvements have really made it an excellent product.

ssddanbrown 5y ago
Awesome to hear. Especially happy to hear good feedback regarding the search improvements, I spent a good amount of time on those and this is the first feedback I've had since.
tailspin2019 5y ago
Out of interest, does your company support the author via sponsorship or other means? I’m curious… I wondered what the red tape is like in organisations that use open source projects like this in order to setup a GitHub sponsorship or similar. In a previous role at a cash-strapped startup I used open source software within my team and have to admit I never arranged any contributions to the OSS projects - though if I had my time again in that role I’d be more mindful about trying to do this. Especially I think when the project is a very small or “one person” team.
- ssddanbrown 5y ago
  I recently come across a similar question on Reddit. While I can't offer the company perspective I can offer a maintainer perspective: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/rwmiwn/recommendations_on_payingcontributing_to_open/hrcpcns/ https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/rwmiwn/recommen...?
  - tailspin2019 5y ago
    Great comment and very interesting to read your perspective on it. Really if we’re honest, any company using Bookstack should be able to afford to chuck you $20/month or something (barring perhaps one-person bootstrapped startups). It’s likely red tape, bureaucracy and the internal culture that prevents this more than financial means. And especially so if support demands are being made of you!
    - Aeolun 5y ago
      Yeah. The reason we’re running a lot of our own open source stacks is that getting anything officially approved has to go through multiple layers of bureaucracy and approvals. Getting approval to throw an open source project some money is likely to be even crazier (probably not a concept they ever imagined).
    - robjan 5y ago
      It's easier if you create some value added service like "premium support" or an Active Directory integration plugin then charge for that.

by shdisi 5y ago

ssddanbrown 5y ago

Awesome to hear. Especially happy to hear good feedback regarding the search improvements, I spent a good amount of time on those and this is the first feedback I've had since.

tailspin2019 5y ago

Out of interest, does your company support the author via sponsorship or other means? I’m curious… I wondered what the red tape is like in organisations that use open source projects like this in order to setup a GitHub sponsorship or similar. In a previous role at a cash-strapped startup I used open source software within my team and have to admit I never arranged any contributions to the OSS projects - though if I had my time again in that role I’d be more mindful about trying to do this. Especially I think when the project is a very small or “one person” team.

ssddanbrown 5y ago
I recently come across a similar question on Reddit. While I can't offer the company perspective I can offer a maintainer perspective: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/rwmiwn/recommendations_on_payingcontributing_to_open/hrcpcns/ https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/rwmiwn/recommen...?
- tailspin2019 5y ago
  Great comment and very interesting to read your perspective on it. Really if we’re honest, any company using Bookstack should be able to afford to chuck you $20/month or something (barring perhaps one-person bootstrapped startups). It’s likely red tape, bureaucracy and the internal culture that prevents this more than financial means. And especially so if support demands are being made of you!
  - Aeolun 5y ago
    Yeah. The reason we’re running a lot of our own open source stacks is that getting anything officially approved has to go through multiple layers of bureaucracy and approvals. Getting approval to throw an open source project some money is likely to be even crazier (probably not a concept they ever imagined).
  - robjan 5y ago
    It's easier if you create some value added service like "premium support" or an Active Directory integration plugin then charge for that.