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FWIW, your comment didn't seem like self-promo or spamming to me. In fact, I consider it to be on-topic because it plugs an important gap that has always existe
by ayewo 3y ago
FWIW, your comment didn't seem like self-promo or spamming to me. In fact, I consider it to be on-topic because it plugs an important gap that has always existed for people that intend to contribute to OSS but cannot due to their immediate circumstances.
The "bug bounty" model is already used for eliciting security contributions from security researchers so it is a good thing you've extended it to elicit general contributions from devs looking to contribute to OSS and be paid for it.
BTW, there's an over-representation of TypeScript and Rust amongst the projects you have listed. I'm curious is this because you already have strong network in these communities, hence the over-representation or it is a consequence of something else?
- irf1 3y agothanks for your note :) most commercial open source projects use Typescript/Rust, and most projects on Algora are COSS
- ayewo 3y agoI track a lot of COSS projects and I wouldn't say most of them use those languages. For interactivity, JavaScript is almost unavoidable on the frontend so it is understandable that teams use TypeScript (that gets transpiled into JS) on the frontend, but I would be hesitant to say most projects use TypeScript or Rust on the backend. I know of several COSS projects that are written in Java, Python, Golang, C++. These are language that are not yet represented by Algora so there is plenty of room for you (or a competitor) to grow the pie of paid contributions to the COSS landscape.