Money and Open Source

tl;dr - The current situation isn’t optimal

We need to figure out better ways to fund open source software. This is a problem I’ve thought a lot about over the last few years, and what follows is a long exploration.

On the Inspiring Power of Procrastination

Or, “How I Get So Much Done: Avoiding Doing Everything”

Open Source VIP’s

Open source + public fundraising = limited access?

This one time at Node Conf…

rockbot: “I’ll be right back, save my rock spot”

maxogden: “Sure, I’ll save rockbot’s rockspot”

rockbot: “Uh oh…”

izs: “If we made a graph of all the rocks she sat on, it could be a box plot”

Pickles

An inaugural chat

For your listening pleasure.

Risk

It’s all relative

Risk is everywhere. It’s there when you do your morning routine, when you travel to and from…

Thoughts on Stories & Experiences

We all have a story.

That story is all part of a collective story.

It feeds into us. Inspires us. Motivates us. Makes us want to get up in the morning.

Capitalism today: burn burn burn to earn earn earn

Or: Crowd-funding and open source software are…

Just Fork It

Open source is cool for lots of reasons.

The thing I like the most is that you can fork a project and create your own independent thing. Don’t like a detail in a project? Just fork it.

Boom