[Cryptography] Open Source developer employment agreements, was: Cue the blamestorming

tpb-crypto at laposte.net tpb-crypto at laposte.net
Mon Apr 21 09:29:19 EDT 2014


> Message du 19/04/14 03:57
> De : "Jason Cooper" 
> 
> This is critical to folks who are increasing their presence in the open
> source community as well. They start out as hackers, scratching an
> itch, gain experience, then get hired (a net loss for the community).
> 
> Something like the program mentioned above would help protect the
> community's time investment in newer contributors. It would also give
> those same developers the most precious resource they need to grow into
> core developers: time.
> 
> I also think this extends well beyond code cleanup. Virtually every
> open source developer I've ever spoken with has a (lengthy) list of
> improvements, features, projects, and cleanups they simply don't have
> time for. I know I do [1], [2]...
> 

Creating a jedi order for programmers seems to be the way. Stallman's organization has that idea already, but they don't sustain their members yet with food and clothing and public buildings, neither do they demand total dedication.

How much would cost to do a step in that direction?


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