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The idea of donating 2 days a month seems great but I feel the site isn't arming developers well. These are some example questions that might come up in convers
by cdnsteve 12y ago
The idea of donating 2 days a month seems great but I feel the site isn't arming developers well. These are some example questions that might come up in conversations:
1. Depending on your work environment, you may work in a place with lots of legacy code. After all, why should an employee work on open source when we could be improving our legacy codebase and slowly modernizing it?
2. How do we know the work contributed will be brought to use (aka merged in)?
3. Can and how do we donate to project X instead providing your time? We have some tight deadlines and we need everyone on board.
Marketing to your employer you need 2 days a month seems like a nonstarter. As in programming, start small, build a strong foundation and iterate. See what works.
Maybe you could start with 2 hours per week (1 day month) and see how that goes. This will get you, the developer, and the company who employees you comfortable with this arrangement.
Companies like to feel comfortable.