👁️ #SX focus shift..

Attn: This is now an 🫂 outreach channel of Social coding commons, under custodianship and tender care of humane tech community gardeners.

Specifically this a 🪵 #dreamlog..

My personal account has moved (temporarily) to @humanetech in a custodianship (janitoring) 🎩

With my support by @nlnet ending, how I continue to foster and nourish my work, depends on 🌱 sustenance I manage to find, as I am out of money totally.

Such is #FOSS life, hence focusing on #SOSS now, really :)

👁️ #SX focus shift..

Attn: This is now an 🫂 outreach channel of Social coding commons, under custodianship and tender care of humane tech community gardeners.

Specifically this a 🪵 #dreamlog..

My personal account has moved (temporarily) to @humanetech in a custodianship (janitoring) 🎩

With my support by @nlnet ending, how I continue to foster and nourish my work, depends on 🌱 sustenance I manage to find, as I am out of money totally.

Such is #FOSS life, hence focusing on #SOSS now, really :)

#ThoughProvoker

The (emergent) strategy of the #FOSS movement as a whole is "Make FOSS, change the world". And it worked. 9 trillion of value to the corporate business world and big tech. You can do a lot with that money, and indeed change the world.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html

#SX #SOSS #Socialcoding

I would like to propose SOSS: Sponsored Open Source Software.

If your company uses OSS, you sponsor the project $100/year.

Not per seat, or per team, just $100/year, all in.

- 30 developers using Ghostty? $100
- 300,000 engineers using tmux? $100, total

You audit the OSS you use (OSS tools for this would quickly emerge, $100, thank you). You set up a bunch of annual $100 sponsorships. Everyone wins.

This guarantees the longevity of that tiny piece of code propping up your bank.

#SOSS

@andrewnez

I can read this in 2 ways. One I agree with, and the other I'm putting to the challenge.

Under Mindfulness core principle of Social experience design there exists no "winning", only Progress matters. Although #SX only considers #FOSS as the software, an SX artifact. Software doesn't win either, it fulfills needs (or it should).

Other interpretation, that FOSS projects cannot be self-sustainable in most cases. Well, here #SOSS comes around. Coding is social.

https://coding.social

#ThoughProvoker

The (emergent) strategy of the #FOSS movement as a whole is "Make FOSS, change the world". And it worked. 9 trillion of value to the corporate business world and big tech. You can do a lot with that money, and indeed change the world.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html

#SX #SOSS #Socialcoding

#ThoughProvoker

The (emergent) strategy of the #FOSS movement as a whole is "Make FOSS, change the world". And it worked. 9 trillion of value to the corporate business world and big tech. You can do a lot with that money, and indeed change the world.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html

#SX #SOSS #Socialcoding

I would like to propose SOSS: Sponsored Open Source Software.

If your company uses OSS, you sponsor the project $100/year.

Not per seat, or per team, just $100/year, all in.

- 30 developers using Ghostty? $100
- 300,000 engineers using tmux? $100, total

You audit the OSS you use (OSS tools for this would quickly emerge, $100, thank you). You set up a bunch of annual $100 sponsorships. Everyone wins.

This guarantees the longevity of that tiny piece of code propping up your bank.

#SOSS

@gert exactly. That challenge is among the ones I'm exploring at Social coding commons. I defined the notion of #SOSS initiatives, who may deliver #FOSS artifacts i.e. the software itself. Separating the movement from its produce, and then focus on the sustainability of said movement.

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

What is "working in commons"?

Right now when saying "I work in the commons" the person standing next to you with the Google T-shirt nods approvingly, while carrying your created wealth. 😄

https://coding.social

#SX #FOSS #SOSS

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

Given a "united commons" and "participative software development".

What is a Project?

An example. You start "Hello world" project, simplest possible. And then - because its a typescript project - you do npm install.

Now what is your Project?

From #FOSS perspective nothing much changed. It compiles and runs.

From #SOSS perspective you've just interwoven your project deep into a huge grassroots chaotic commons, and are exposed to the #sustainability risks of that decision.