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- Explain ways that companies that support open source and why that is a positive perk that we are going to be looking out for | ||
- Donations to projects that are used (instead of just saying "we use Babel, JSX, ES6, etc", wouldn't it be amazing to see "we have been sponsoring Babel with $10k/month for the last year because we care about supporting projects that we fundamentally rely on" | ||
- Developer time: "We contribute to open source" vs. "we allow our developers to: spend 20% time, or 1 day a week, or weekly hackathons, or employ a maintainer of Babel" | ||
- Monthyl donation stipend: "we allow our developers to distribute $50 a month to the open source project of their liking" |
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typo: Monthly
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50% is probably a percentage that may be too high for most companies to afford, but I think that 1 day a week for solid companies and 1 day every 2 weeks for emerging companies should become the minimum standard for companies using open source heavily in their business. My 2 cents. |
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Thanks for reaching out! I'd be more interested in a company that supports the open source community more: whether it be donating to important projects that the company uses (like on opencollective.com), contributing developer time during work hours to fix bugs, report issues, even maintain a project, or even doing a matching donation similar to a non-profit (maybe give $50 a month to employees for them to choose). If you have any questions about that I'd be happy to explain. |
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That sounds like you could still be interested in the offer. What if the recruiter says yes?
@nemesisdesign I don't think I had the number 50% in this PR anywhere but I included 50% in my personal email because that's what I have now (unrelated to making a generic email here) |
So I was thinking about how I never respond to recruiter emails, and how their way of try to appeal to me is a bit lacking:
work on some framework, create a new framework, be a senior dev/cto, etc. Personally I was just thinking a bit about how companies can change to better support open source, so why not respond back with some suggestions/help?
Can suggest:
Maybe we can come up with a better-edited response that a lot of us can use when we aren't interested but would like to provide feedback about supporting open source?
Not really should how it should go, so making a PR so people can leave comments/suggestions/etc? I don't know 😅, figured it's worth a shot