If your employer gave you €1000 (or $1000) to spend on open source projects that support your work, where would this money go and why?
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@thibaultamartin At this point open source development (not just source code, but also commit history, issues discussion) is fueling LLMs training. That's where money should come.
@thibaultamartin difficult question tbh 😅
@ShinIce mostly because €1000 is nothing 😁
@thibaultamartin @ShinIce Then my contributions so far amount to much less than nothing 🤫
I'll assume it's $3,000 instead...
And I'll divide it into three parts:
One third I'll give to @protonprivacy
One third I'll give to @GrapheneOS.
And one third I'll give to the developers of @fedora .
@thibaultamartin
@thibaultamartin I would split it among Immich, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mastodon and Incus!
@thibaultamartin Linux based mobile OS project
@thibaultamartin My pocket. Because, like the vast majority of open source developers, my employer paid(1) me to develop open source software.
It is a weird dichotomy that much open source, especially Linux, is heavily funded by corporations, while some open source, for example curl, receives barely any funding.
(1) paid rather than pays because I am retired.
@thibaultamartin I will think first about the project your compagny is using without conttibuting (it is not a jugement, just it is very common)
@thibaultamartin JUnit, AssertJ, Maven and probably one of the open JDK distributions.
@thibaultamartin split between GNOME, niri, Codeberg, and Servo.
GNOME & niri, for making me feel at home on my PC. Codeberg, because they do a fantastic job at providing a much needed service. Servo, because I'd like a usable browser at some point in the future.
My employer gave me that money and it went mainly to #miniDebConf #Berlin and to multiple #XMPP sprints.
For me I think I would spend it as
- €260 on @gnome (price of a Win 11 Pro licence)
- €100 to @YaLTeR for Niri
- €100 to @flathub
- €349 on @kdenlive (price of a Final Cut Pro licence)
- €50 on @thunderbird
- €50 on Helix
- The rest as tips for small utilities that make my life easier
@thibaultamartin @gnome @YaLTeR @flathub @kdenlive @thunderbird i've discovered helix from your blog post and its pretty impressive
@thibaultamartin Probably straight to a core Debian maintainer, if I couldn't find another option looking through our stack.