SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uk to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoOpen Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Awayitsfoss.comexternal-linkmessage-square88linkfedilinkarrow-up1570arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlopensource@programming.devlinux@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·21 days agoThen they would just be paid but exhausted
minus-squareAlejandra Gonzalez@tech.lgbtlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 days ago@Appoxo @sj_zero Better than poor and exhausted (and being completely volunteer is a big reason for being exhausted)
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 days agoThis I’ll leave to the person responsible for their own life to decide. Not for me to decide
minus-squareronigami@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 days agoMaybe but when you’re a volunteer the reasonable expectations are near zero. When you’re being paid, the expectations grow.
minus-squareAlejandra Gonzalez@tech.lgbtlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 days agoIf you are “overworked”, it sadly doesn’t matter how much volunteering you are doing. You are treating FOSS like a job for one reason or another and should be paid
minus-squareronigami@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 days agoBut hardly anyone in FOSS gets paid like it’s a real job. If you get paid, it would be more like the cost of one beer per month. Or on that magnitude.
minus-squareAlejandra Gonzalez@tech.lgbtlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days ago@ronigami That’s the problem, hardly anyone in FOSS gets paid at all. That’s what we are trying to fix.
Then they would just be paid but exhausted
@Appoxo @sj_zero Better than poor and exhausted (and being completely volunteer is a big reason for being exhausted)
This I’ll leave to the person responsible for their own life to decide.
Not for me to decide
Maybe but when you’re a volunteer the reasonable expectations are near zero. When you’re being paid, the expectations grow.
If you are “overworked”, it sadly doesn’t matter how much volunteering you are doing. You are treating FOSS like a job for one reason or another and should be paid
But hardly anyone in FOSS gets paid like it’s a real job. If you get paid, it would be more like the cost of one beer per month. Or on that magnitude.
@ronigami That’s the problem, hardly anyone in FOSS gets paid at all.
That’s what we are trying to fix.