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

ianG iang at iang.org
Mon Apr 21 20:58:50 EDT 2014


On 21/04/2014 14:29 pm, tpb-crypto at laposte.net wrote:
>> 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.


This is the guild solution.  Although it is appealing, there are always
those who don't like the result.

If it is successful, it tends to move fairly quickly to shutting people
out who are not liked for some reason or other.  The reason is always
couched in professional language such as "not the right qualifications"
but the motives tend to become politicised over time.

In the alternate, if it doesn't work, or it's aimed at too low a level,
commercial efforts tend to race towards the bottom by pushing paid
courses/events/tests down the throats of the members.


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


You could find some group that is already part way there and just add
the guild-like things you want, over time.  Small steps in time.  Guilds
or orders don't spring into life over-night, they evolve over time.



iang



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