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I'm just curious whether companies are open for this. Lately there is more traction towards open-source and whether a person can start contributing to it and later join the core team.
one personal example i've read is the developer of nomad levant project was acquihired[1] by hashicorp
[0] - https://github.com/hashicorp/levant [1] - https://twitter.com/jrasell/status/1230132251893125120
I've declined, and a few years later they basically closed-sourced their platform (it's still source available, but only with years delay, and they no longer accept feature contributions). Can't say I regret my choice.
If you already work for them for free, why should they pay you?
If they don't pay you they:
- Have no incentive to make you continue contributing,
- Have no decision power over what component you contribute to,
- Have no decision power over when or how often you contribute,
- Have no ground for asking that you follow any particular process (due to the first point),
- etc.
If you already work for them for free, why should they pay you?
I believe they joined deno shortly after.
So, I guess it does happen.
SourceHut doesn't often hire full-time but we do often find ways to get funding for people on a part-time basis, and 100% of the time we already knew who those people were going to be because of their work in the community. It just makes sense.