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I have been slowly moving away from US controlled tech, the remaining bits are ones I can't control really: banking payments, DK state ITs love affair with microsoft, apps needed to access state services.
And if someone can come up with a way to persuade teenagers this is cool. That would be nice.
Of course what the piece misses is the huge commercial reliance on the back end stack.
We desperately need #Eurostack.
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116554305782688437
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Wenn du Kaffee in der Sonne trinkst und die Schokoladenkekse dazu miese Stimmung verbreiten *tia* ☀️☕🍫😅
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I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource
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👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Ohne #Parkplätze an der Straße gehen die Geschäfte pleite!“
Seit Jahren wird mit dieser Angst Stimmung gemacht, wenn Städte verkehrsberuhigte …
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Ohne #Parkplätze an der Straße gehen die Geschäfte pleite!“
Seit Jahren wird mit dieser Angst Stimmung gemacht, wenn Städte verkehrsberuhigte …