From: Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, Steve George <steve@futurile.net>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
Tanguy Le Carrour <tanguy@bioneland.org>
Subject: Re: Discussion on Guix funding // future
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:16:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29442227-9dca-4da7-9fb1-622bcc1188b4@elenq.tech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875xpgo8cc.fsf@elephly.net>
On 2024-10-25 11:11, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Steve George <steve@futurile.net> writes:
>
>> One concern with supporting developers is whether it demotivates them
>> in the long-term: from intrinsic to extrinisic motivation. Basically,
>> the answer is that pay doesn't motivate but it does 'enable' for
>> committed contributors: the Linux foundation survey shows this,
>> there's also various academic pieces on FOSS motivation.
>
> Paying some people also has the potential of eroding motivation for
> those who are not paid.
>
> *Employing* people and having their salaries be paid from donations held
> by a foundation is a can of worms that I personally would shy away from
> opening. An easier and less daunting way to inject monetary rewards
> into volunteer-based activities is to fund awards for certain
> accomplishments. This would strip all the complications of employment
> and still allow for less desirable work to be rewarded.
>
Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there and
doing the dirty job?
That's what worries me the most.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-25 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-24 22:08 Discussion on Guix funding // future Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-10-25 8:12 ` Steve George
2024-10-25 9:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-10-25 9:16 ` Ekaitz Zarraga [this message]
2024-10-25 9:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-10-25 11:05 ` indieterminacy
2024-10-25 11:22 ` Steve George
2024-10-25 11:51 ` indieterminacy
2024-10-25 12:05 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-10-26 17:16 ` Tomas Volf
2024-10-25 11:06 ` Steve George
2024-10-25 12:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-10-25 12:18 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-10-25 15:49 ` Steve George
2024-10-25 12:58 ` Thompson, David
2024-10-25 14:31 ` Christopher Howard
2024-10-26 6:57 ` Steve George
2024-10-25 19:13 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-10-25 23:25 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-10-26 12:49 ` Greg Hogan
2024-10-26 13:48 ` Guix (and Guile's) promise, and how to (hopefully) get there Christine Lemmer-Webber
2024-10-26 14:49 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-10-26 20:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-10-27 0:38 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-10-26 16:40 ` Suhail Singh
2024-10-26 22:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-10-27 1:33 ` Suhail Singh
2024-10-26 22:28 ` indieterminacy
2024-10-26 21:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-10-26 15:04 ` Discussion on Guix funding // future Ludovic Courtès
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2024-10-25 14:21 Noé Lopez via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-10-25 21:26 ` Greg Hogan
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