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A thing I’ve considered: tying a Union mission to open source contribution. Remember when all those companies had free lunch and 20% contribution time? Then ov
by schneems 3y ago
A thing I’ve considered: tying a Union mission to open source contribution.
Remember when all those companies had free lunch and 20% contribution time? Then over the years those lunches got harder to find and slowly that 20% time got turned into 0% time. I could leave the lunches, but would love for a larger org that can help fight to build up the contributor pipeline and sustain maintainers.
Would that interest you? What types of education or open source perks might?
- julian-a-avar-c 3y agoThis is very interesting food for thought imo. I mean, I've mentioned that the only thing I want is for large companies not to do deals behind our back that might affect us negatively on purpose. But let's talk about my ideal world. I think allowing developers to work on open source (or eat a second lunch if they prefer) would be a tremendously good idea, not just for all the mental freedom it would give to developers, but also because it would help propel the _entire_ industry forward. Imagine if _half of every single dev_ did OSS during that time. What a world that would be.