Excellent #FOSDEM talk about burnout in open source by @mirandah. She quotes @django co-creator and Board member @jacob,
“I wasn't getting paid to do the work that I felt like I had to do, and I had to do the work that I was getting paid to do because like mortgages and bills and car payments and that sort of stuff, so I had to do like double work one out of a feeling of obligation and one out of a feeling of like, we live in a capitalist society and I need money.’”
@mirandah @django @jacob from one of Jacob’s interviews, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqcuzSwySR4
@mirandah @django @jacob another quote from the same source,
“T]he one that annoys me personally is Facebook buys Instagram for a billion dollars, and Instagram has not donated a cent or a line of code to #Django or to #Python which they built that on top of. There is so much money around open source, there is not a company out there that is not directly more profitable because they're using free software and yet very very few people actually are getting paid for their work on open source.’”
@mirandah @django @jacob Miranda’s full report: https://mirandaheath.website/report-on-burnout-in-open-source-software/
@mirandah @django @jacob and her call for action for the #FOSDEM audience: https://mirandaheath.website/you-can-help-solve-burnout-in-open-source-software/
