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"Rebuilding the Cathedral" by Nadia Eghbal

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Nadia Eghbal discusses the modern challenges of open source sustainability and how the community can adapt to support digital infrastructure.

Open source "won" in a pre-Twitter, pre-GitHub, pre-Stack Overflow era. Today, building software in public means dealing with people (often, strangers) at least as much as writing code. The sheer volume of interactions, however, can make it difficult to collaborate. We'll talk about what's changed, how we can adapt today, and what the future might hold for producers of open source software. Nadia Eghbal GITHUB Nadia explores how we can better support open source infrastructure, highlighting current gaps in funding and knowledge. Last year, she published "Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure" with support from the Ford Foundation. Nadia is currently building sustainability initiatives at GitHub. She is based in San Francisco.

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u/teryrorin r/programming • Recommends

On “Rebuilding the Cathedral: An Overview of the state of OpenSource in 2017”

…es to work on OSS software the company depends on, _on company time_. * __Independent__: Raise money independently, either by starting a business (which has several variations of this idea), or through sponsorships. * __Infrastructure__: This is the proposed long-term solution. I'd recommend you watch this part of the talk at least, starting here: link to this video…
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u/jberrymanin r/haskell • Recommends

On “Announcing the GHC DevOps Group”

…ner of like the majority of the haskell library ecosystem. I don't think there's any evidence that those libraries being on github was much of a boon to him. In OSS almost no one is willing to go beyond reporting bugs, and this is already very easy to do for GHC, and I've always found it to be a very smooth and positive experience as a reporter. link to this video…
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u/gnus-migratein r/programming • Mentions

On “Paying people to work on open source is good actually”

To clarify what I mean: your problem isn't with open source as an idea, your problem is that we live within a system that heavily punishes people who want to share their work and have people contribute to it. The BSL is simply a power grab by maintainers, and them trying to rationalise it as "we're doing all the work" when in fact the reason they rely on community contributions for their project to remain alive. I want people who believe in open source as an idea to push for systemic change that would allow them to pursue open source development sustainably, but for that to happen people have to see that it's failing, and they need to be able to try to make it work. There are ideas on how…
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