Marga Manterola's raises the issue of burnout:
Free as in Burned Out: Who Really Pays for Open Source?
live now here: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/janson
Major contributors to burnout in open source:
Marga Manterola's raises the issue of burnout:
Free as in Burned Out: Who Really Pays for Open Source?
live now here: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/janson
Major contributors to burnout in open source:
Marga Manterola's raises the issue of burnout:
Free as in Burned Out: Who Really Pays for Open Source?
live now here: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/janson
Since this was just mentioned in the FOSS Funding DevRoom: There is actually a report on Maintainer Burnout by @mirandah : https://mirandaheath.website/report-on-burnout-in-open-source-software/
Since this was just mentioned in the FOSS Funding DevRoom: There is actually a report on Maintainer Burnout by @mirandah : https://mirandaheath.website/report-on-burnout-in-open-source-software/
Curious (or not?) that one of FOSDEM 2026's sponsors is google, which provides part of the tech infrastructure for israel to commit genocide in Palestine through its participation in project Nimbus...
some refs:
Another talk relevant to workers:
1 Feb, at 16:05
Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together
This talk identifies 6 factors that contribute to developer burnout:
Recommendations for structural changes to address developer burnout:
Update from the “animal farm” / petting zoo / remotely-working “emotional support animals” from the village of #LikaLodge : my favorite horse Dosadica ; small calf called Rambo; & Bella’s new baby with uncle-dog Rocky (photos & love sent by Nikola)
Update from the “animal farm” / petting zoo / remotely-working “emotional support animals” from the village of #LikaLodge : my favorite horse Dosadica ; small calf called Rambo; & Bella’s new baby with uncle-dog Rocky (photos & love sent by Nikola)
I don’t need therapy, man. I need a chef, driver, maid, nanny, and 50% raise.
Current status: Spoon debt is real. I’m at -13 and the spoon man is looking to collect.
@strypey this post was a while ago, and I've since found that regular walks *do* help me. A key for actually going on these walks was, for me, giving myself permission to not feel good about it. It's okay to just grumble along in the woods.
@lizzard
> this post was a while ago
Ae, I found it via a hashtag search for #burnout. Glad to hear that you've managed some walks and you're finding it helpful. Go you!
> A key for actually going on these walks was, for me, giving myself permission to not feel good about it.
Oh for sure. Burnout makes everything feel like an imposition. Expecting a walk to be enjoyable under those circumstances is setting yourself up for failure ; )
This is one of those ideas that's obvious once you hear it said out loud, but—I needed to hear it?
I've been putting extra effort into allowing myself to drop low-priority balls this week.... (& fighting overwhelm even so....)
The systems in our society are deeply broken. Autistics often feel the effects earlier and more strongly, but people of all kinds are burning out in record numbers because we can't keep this up much longer.
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Burnout #Neurodiversity #ND
"The world needs us. Especially now, when it is clear that the statute quo is destroying the earth and isn't healthy for humans either. We need the free-thinking innovative pattern seeking of the neurodivergent brain."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
That's a manifesto in a paragraph.
"ADHD meds made it possible to land my dream job but medicated me was an untested creature and trying to do too much (because I could), this led to severe autistic burnout. If I couldn't live the life I wanted, if I was so exhausted and lapsing in and out of shutdowns and depression and found daily life so freaking hard, I didn't know what was left. I retreated to writing."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
OMG this too is so me!
