Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
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Re: Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
#2Paid consulting has always been a thing - the idea that's new here (I think) is encouraging companies to deliberately reach out to and book talks from maintainers who aren't good at marketing or selling their time - almost as an accounting hack to help get their company to send some money in the right direction.
Re: Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
#3Paid consulting has always been a thing - the idea that's new here (I think) is encouraging companies to deliberately reach out to and book talks from maintainers who aren't good at marketing or selling their time - almost as an accounting hack to help get their company to send some money in the right direction.
It also seems like a good way to get the OSS maintainer familiar with the company in case they ever wanted to have a more direct financial relationship
Re: Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
#4I like this idea and it has lots of ups and I can’t think of many downsides.
Re: Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
#5This would be a company benefit that I'd be excited about. Have say quarterly talks from people who have built things we are using, maybe have them dig into the internals a bit and walk us through the codebase.
Re: Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
#6I wonder when will more projects do what Krita does perfectly, selling the software in storefronts for a one time purchase.
https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/
>Paid versions of Krita on other platforms. You will get automatic updates when new versions of Krita come out. After deduction of the Store fee, the money will support Krita development.
This is honestly one of the perfect way to do it imo
Re: Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
#7I wonder when will more projects do what Krita does perfectly, selling the software in storefronts for a one time purchase. https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/ >Paid versions of Krita on other platforms. You will get automatic updates when new versions of Krita come out. After deduction of the Store fee, the money will support Krita development. This is honestly one of the perfect way to do it imo
Is Krita transparent about their finances? Because I would love to know how much money Krita makes on this front. My guess is not much at all.
Re: Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
#8Paid consulting has always been a thing - the idea that's new here (I think) is encouraging companies to deliberately reach out to and book talks from maintainers who aren't good at marketing or selling their time - almost as an accounting hack to help get their company to send some money in the right direction.
This is 100% a simple, great idea.
Re: Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
#9Idea for someone with a little spare time: a directory of open source projects and their maintainers with info about hiring them. I think it would also encourage more folks to adopt open source solutions if it was clear they actually had maintainers and those people could be paid for help.
Re: Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
#10Paid consulting has always been a thing - the idea that's new here (I think) is encouraging companies to deliberately reach out to and book talks from maintainers who aren't good at marketing or selling their time - almost as an accounting hack to help get their company to send some money in the right direction.
This is 100% a simple, great idea.
What I like most about it is that it slots cleanly into the education budget bucket that is normally allocated at large corporates (atleast in my experience).
It would be a ton cheaper than what that usually ends up getting spent on (generally re:Invent tickets and expenses).