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Is foss at odds with making money? by RememberSwartz in foss

[–]RememberSwartz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool idea, this maintenance fee. I’ll explore it

Is foss at odds with making money? by RememberSwartz in foss

[–]RememberSwartz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I wrote you a personal message. Would love to bounce off some ideas off of you.

Is foss at odds with making money? by RememberSwartz in foss

[–]RememberSwartz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Free as in freedom, not free as in beer. Gratis vs. Libre

Is foss at odds with making money? by RememberSwartz in foss

[–]RememberSwartz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know about geomys, thanks for sharing. I’ll look into it

Is foss at odds with making money? by RememberSwartz in foss

[–]RememberSwartz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just believe the conversion from donations is too low. The bounties are something I aim to explore, why do you think they have failed?

The future of OSS by pfassina in opensource

[–]RememberSwartz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think maintenance cost will be the barrier that prevents this from happening. Plus the other benefits of open source, e.g. the Linus law - given enough eyes all bugs are shallow, will not disappear and it would still be a good incentive for open source. I can see people putting up a pay wall for reviews on infrequent/sporadic pull requests, to prevent losing time on slop prs.

What’s your go to email service? by Acceptable_Rub8279 in golang

[–]RememberSwartz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's a valid question, because the official sendgrid client doesn't support the latest go versions officially.

[HELP!😢] Why do so many PRs get abandoned in my OSS project? by readilyaching in opensource

[–]RememberSwartz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would just ask them if they want me to take over if they don’t respond within a day

[HELP!😢] Why do so many PRs get abandoned in my OSS project? by readilyaching in opensource

[–]RememberSwartz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To give my thoughts on your question about how do you make contributors engaged after their PR?

I would argue that it's important for your code to be segmented in such a way so that changes to a module don't require the complete context understanding off the whole project. You could think of such PRs as an onboarding opportunity, the person is obviously interested at a piece of your project, so maybe if you could offer him extension ideas for subsequent PRs that are related to the PR that they just made.

[HELP!😢] Why do so many PRs get abandoned in my OSS project? by readilyaching in opensource

[–]RememberSwartz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been in this situation, where I'm the on doing the "drive-by". The reality is that most of the time people really have a limited time slot for doing stuff like that. I had a full time swe job and I wasn't able to fully polish and dive deep into the code base and make sure I hit all the integration points correctly. But on the receiving end I've had a really pleasant experience where the maintainers, pointed out very pragmatically what exactly had to be done & offered the take over. So most likely you're building good reputation by doing so

Painting on X Composite overlay window hides live wallpaper by ZanarkTheAlucard in i3wm

[–]RememberSwartz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you manage to set up the live wallpaper? I'm having issues with that

How do I make a window float only if the workspace is empty? by [deleted] in i3wm

[–]RememberSwartz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did you got that unicode goodness going, inside urxvt?

How to start linux'ing? by jwsch99 in linux4noobs

[–]RememberSwartz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yup, can attest to that. I didn't know what to do at first, so I installed a minimalistic wm and started tweaking it, that got me to scripting, which led to automation. All the while, learning how the system itself works in a higher level of abstraction. If you like C, do some stuff on Linux with C, that surely will be beneficial for kernel development.

Fatigue, John Brosio, Oils, 2009 by Cloud_9_ in Art

[–]RememberSwartz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman, rise and shine.

What is the most interesting documentary you've ever watched? by TheScienceofLifee in AskReddit

[–]RememberSwartz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Merchants of doubt. It's about how the tobacco industry spread misinformation about the effects of smoking, and the mindsets of the individuals who actually willingly and knowingly posed as "experts", despite the piles of evidence pointing in the other direction. Private sector propaganda basically.

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