"Who pays the toolmakers?" by Nadia Eghbal https://medium.com/@nayafia/who-pays-the-toolmakers-70f13d16c17c
Food for thought on open-source sustainability and app dev sustainability.
Also if you haven't read Nadia Eghbal's "Roads and Bridges," it's a masterpiece on analyzing open-source communities and economics: https://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/
I'm particularly struck by this quote:
'Successful open source developers get "acquihired" by a company who values their reputation and skills, which has the perverse effect of making them less noisy about how to make a living off of open source. Oftentimes, they slow or stop working on the projects that made them popular in the first place.'
As someone who recently burned out a bit on open-source and stopped contributing so much, I have to ask myself how much this describes me. 😕
@nolan I have many feels on this, as you might imagine. I expect to talk about this at ApacheCon 2018 in September during my diversity and inclusiveness talk.
BTW if you'd like to be interviewed as prep for my talk on that I'd love to bend your ear for an hour this summer :)
@nolan Montreal is LOVELY in September. And my talk is in the last slot on the last day...I need people to come! :)
<insert grump about how much the ASF clearly values diversity, inclusivity and communities>
@wohali Sure thing, happy to. :) Really loved your "Evolve or Perish" talk BTW; wish I could make the 2018 ApacheCon to see your next talk!