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How does one become a full time open source dev? do they get paid? who pays them? I mean it makes sense that if lots of people/companies depend on the project t

How does one become a full time open source dev? do they get paid? who pays them? I mean it makes sense that if lots of people/companies depend on the project that they SHOULD get paid.

deadbabe 3y ago
I’ve had some success funding my open source work through Patreon, I post regular updates on what I’m working on and take some feature requests from members, along with the occasional nsfw pics.
- vegetablepotpie 3y ago
  What? I have some questions. 1. What do you consider success? Is this less than, equal to, or greater than the amount you pay on rent/mortgage? 2. Are you building user-facing applications for a non-technical user base, or infrastructure code for a technical user base? 3. How much of your success, do you think, is based on the novelty you offer through occasional nsfw pics?
  - iamflimflam1 3y ago
    3. My read was that they receive the occasional nsfw pic, not that they provide them.
    - jhanoncomm 3y ago
      Whatever it is, it sure sounds creepy.
- Qiu_Zhanxuan 3y ago
  ahah i'm confused, do they pay for your open source contributions or your artistic inclinations ?
tison 3y ago
My first job was developing and maintaining a streaming system based on Apache Flink. Thus, it's normal to me that a "full-time opensource developer" can get paid. Of course, there are some in-house tasks. But still, I spent a lot of time participating in the upstream community and became a committer after about one year's contribution. That said, after I changed my job, my engagement decreased considerably. But my following jobs are mostly still full-time OSS developers: * PingCAP for TiDB and TiKV. I wrote its dev guide and built its (new) governance. * StreamNative for Apache Pulsar. * Greptime for GreptimeDB. Many (infra) software MUST BE open source today. You may see my explanation at https://www.tisonkun.com/blog/greptimedb-community-report#sustainability https://www.tisonkun.com/blog/greptimedb-community-report#su....

How does one become a full time open source dev? do they get paid? who pays them? I mean it makes sense that if lots of people/companies depend on the project that they SHOULD get paid.

deadbabe 3y ago

I’ve had some success funding my open source work through Patreon, I post regular updates on what I’m working on and take some feature requests from members, along with the occasional nsfw pics.

vegetablepotpie 3y ago
What? I have some questions. 1. What do you consider success? Is this less than, equal to, or greater than the amount you pay on rent/mortgage? 2. Are you building user-facing applications for a non-technical user base, or infrastructure code for a technical user base? 3. How much of your success, do you think, is based on the novelty you offer through occasional nsfw pics?
- iamflimflam1 3y ago
  3. My read was that they receive the occasional nsfw pic, not that they provide them.
  - jhanoncomm 3y ago
    Whatever it is, it sure sounds creepy.
Qiu_Zhanxuan 3y ago
ahah i'm confused, do they pay for your open source contributions or your artistic inclinations ?

tison 3y ago

My first job was developing and maintaining a streaming system based on Apache Flink. Thus, it's normal to me that a "full-time opensource developer" can get paid. Of course, there are some in-house tasks. But still, I spent a lot of time participating in the upstream community and became a committer after about one year's contribution. That said, after I changed my job, my engagement decreased considerably. But my following jobs are mostly still full-time OSS developers: * PingCAP for TiDB and TiKV. I wrote its dev guide and built its (new) governance. * StreamNative for Apache Pulsar. * Greptime for GreptimeDB. Many (infra) software MUST BE open source today. You may see my explanation at https://www.tisonkun.com/blog/greptimedb-community-report#sustainability https://www.tisonkun.com/blog/greptimedb-community-report#su....