wutania
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
i would think gitstart as an extension to engineers themselves instead of working in silo
disclaimer: i used to work at gitstart
the developers are typically folks who wouldn’t be able to get a remote job otherwise due to universities not being globally recognized or english is not super fluent. many developers grow a lot during their time at gitstart and eventually move on to getting jobs at places like Google, Amazon too. they support any developer to grow (there’s a team dedicated to figure out growth paths for each developer on the platform)
disclaimer: i used to work at gitstart
Hope that the small things we’re doing at GitStart can break down the barriers of language, merit, class, culture, and political situation and let anyone who wants to learn coding can learn, and those who want to make money from it can!
The free ones seems cool, gonna check them out and probably reach out to folks there.
If you have experience building such programs, know excellent mentoring platforms, or would like to be a mentor yourself, I’d love to hear from you at: [email protected] or reply below
It seems more like for a one time donation, right? Imo it would work better in a subscription model / base on real production time usage rather than just dependency tree. But this is a great start for sure.
It could be a new badge for companies, like how buildings get those sustainability badges, but for companies who pay for OSS!
To truly fix open source we need a platform that makes maintaining (and potentially merging similar projects) a breeze. And make sponsorship simple, and make it work. Otherwise new projects will keep popping up on new platforms, and go stale instantly once the maintainer runs out of the passion fuel.
- discoverability of open source projects that need funding - the actual runtime usage of different open source projects - priority to fix open source bugs with bounty
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