this is such a great initiative but I fear this may get exploited without proper structure.
Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
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#13What does it mean for volunteering to be "recognized" in Germany?
In addition to tax stuff there's a card you can get in most states, issued by cities/districts based on certain criteria, like doing a certain amount of hours per week of volunteer work, that will give you a discount or free entry to museums, pools, movie theaters, events.. There's listings online of all the institutions and businesses that give a discount.
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#14It's ok to have a hobby. Not everything needs to be minmaxed to extract the maximum amount of money from the system.
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#15I agree with the goal but unless you create the petition using the official Bundestag website, this is about as useful as a thumbs up on Facebook. If you make a petition with the official website and it passes they have to deal with it, even if its a rejection. https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/epet/peteinreichen.html
Furthermore, this petition should be written in German as well...
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#16I agree with the goal but unless you create the petition using the official Bundestag website, this is about as useful as a thumbs up on Facebook. If you make a petition with the official website and it passes they have to deal with it, even if its a rejection. https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/epet/peteinreichen.html
Furthermore, this petition should be written in German as well...
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Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#17What work would count as valid open source work though? I assume projects that people use are obvious. But what about ones where you're just throwing up your own projects where they start out with no users or impact? Even though its open source, does it need strategic importance from the get-go? Who decides?
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#18Previous discussion (141 comments) which used the German version of the URL a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078770
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Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#20What does it mean for volunteering to be "recognized" in Germany?
In addition to tax stuff there's a card you can get in most states, issued by cities/districts based on certain criteria, like doing a certain amount of hours per week of volunteer work, that will give you a discount or free entry to museums, pools, movie theaters, events.. There's listings online of all the institutions and businesses that give a discount.
For this, and for the criminal justice use case, it seems to me that it isn't possible for "work on open source" to receive this kind of formal recognition. Anyone is free to self-certify that they're working on an open-source project headed by, and exclusively contributed to by, themselves.
You'd need to formally recognize open-source projects that the German state approves of, on a case-by-case basis.
And even then you have questions like "If Hans Reiser is sentenced to community service for killing his wife, can he satisfy that by working on reiserfs? How is that different from sentencing him to no punishment?"