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You already got a bunch of answers in different directions here, I suppose what you could clarify is: Do you want to leave the industry (i.e. no longer be invol

by fhd2 2y ago

You already got a bunch of answers in different directions here, I suppose what you could clarify is: Do you want to leave the industry (i.e. no longer be involved in software creation in any capacity) or just move away from writing code? I _could_ understand if it was the former. Quite a bit of the industry got pretty annoying, from my perspective primarily corporate and early stage startups. But there is for example many wonderful NGOs that build software that helps a cause. Less money in it, but I always find it incredibly refreshing to work with these kinds of people on their kinds of problems, pretty much zero BS.

carlmr 2y ago
>But there is for example many wonderful NGOs that build software that helps a cause. Are you working in that sector, can you suggest some NGOs that are good in this respect?
- fhd2 2y ago
  Well, I'm not sure they're NGOs per the US definition, the concept doesn't translate all that well (I'm in Germany), but publicly funded projects essentially. I was personally just part of Prototype Fund, a German thing that funds open source software for public benefit. Some cool projects in our round: - https://www.oceanecowatch.org/ https://www.oceanecowatch.org/ - https://github.com/Viraaj-A/ecthr_prediction https://github.com/Viraaj-A/ecthr_prediction - https://privact.org https://privact.org (what I worked on :P) These things aren't well funded, they don't have permanent staff. They get some funding to make some progress, then look for some more. I'm sure there's bigger ones with fixed staff, but so far I've been involved only in smaller niche ones, and the people that do this kind of stuff are usually a pleasure to work with. And almost most importantly, they don't have the funding to finance any top down "agile transformations", chase short sighted questionable ideas from marketing, or any of that stuff. The world is certainly full of depressing stuff, but it's large enough to also host a life time supply of wonderful people and efforts. At least that's my sunny disposition.

by fhd2 2y ago

carlmr 2y ago

>But there is for example many wonderful NGOs that build software that helps a cause. Are you working in that sector, can you suggest some NGOs that are good in this respect?

fhd2 2y ago
Well, I'm not sure they're NGOs per the US definition, the concept doesn't translate all that well (I'm in Germany), but publicly funded projects essentially. I was personally just part of Prototype Fund, a German thing that funds open source software for public benefit. Some cool projects in our round: - https://www.oceanecowatch.org/ https://www.oceanecowatch.org/ - https://github.com/Viraaj-A/ecthr_prediction https://github.com/Viraaj-A/ecthr_prediction - https://privact.org https://privact.org (what I worked on :P) These things aren't well funded, they don't have permanent staff. They get some funding to make some progress, then look for some more. I'm sure there's bigger ones with fixed staff, but so far I've been involved only in smaller niche ones, and the people that do this kind of stuff are usually a pleasure to work with. And almost most importantly, they don't have the funding to finance any top down "agile transformations", chase short sighted questionable ideas from marketing, or any of that stuff. The world is certainly full of depressing stuff, but it's large enough to also host a life time supply of wonderful people and efforts. At least that's my sunny disposition.