Episode 6: Open Source Software Maintenance Lessons Learned with Bastien Guerry

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React Native Radio

iPhreaks Show

Ruby Rogues

Cachefly

Panel

Eric Berry

Richard Littauer

Joined By Special Guest: Bastien Guerry

Episode Summary

Bastien Guerry is employed by the French Administration in a program named Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général inspired by Presidential Innovation Fellows. He is also the Release Manager of Org Mode, an information management and outlining tool for Emacs.

Bastien wrote his first software for his girlfriend to help her with her thesis. He then went onto maintain Org Mode between years 2011 and 2015. Bastien likens open source software maintainers' job to that of stay-at-home mothers' job description, as both are a lot of work and involve a lot of responsibility and stress and both are not compensated financially.

The panel then ask about the evolution of Fund The Code Project which supports the free software movement by donations from sponsors. Bastien invites free software maintainers to contact Fund The Code Project for help in finding sponsors.

Links

Bastien Guerry - EmacsWiki

Org mode

_DINSIC

Etalab

Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général

Presidential Innovation Fellows

https://bzg.fr/en/donating-to-free-software-and-free-culture.html/

https://libraries.io/

https://backyourstack.com/

http://themaintainers.org/

Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) | Twitter

Maintainers III: Practice, Policy and Care

https://publiccode.net/

https://www.fundthecode.org/

http://openmodels.fr/en/

SOS 005: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui

Open Source & Software Development | O'Reilly OSCON

Picks

Eric Berry:

Software Freedom Conservancy

Richard Littauer:

The Internet is a City

https://www.amazon.com/Chomsky-Anarchism-Noam/dp/1904859208

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_(bookstore)

Bastien Guerry:

https://www.writethedocs.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio

Special Guest: Bastien Guerry.

Sponsors

React Native Radio

iPhreaks Show

Ruby Rogues

Cachefly

Panel

Eric Berry

Richard Littauer

Joined By Special Guest: Bastien Guerry

Episode Summary

Bastien Guerry is employed by the French Administration in a program named Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général inspired by Presidential Innovation Fellows. He is also the Release Manager of Org Mode, an information management and outlining tool for Emacs.

Bastien wrote his first software for his girlfriend to help her with her thesis. He then went onto maintain Org Mode between years 2011 and 2015. Bastien likens open source software maintainers' job to that of stay-at-home mothers' job description, as both are a lot of work and involve a lot of responsibility and stress and both are not compensated financially.

The panel then ask about the evolution of Fund The Code Project which supports the free software movement by donations from sponsors. Bastien invites free software maintainers to contact Fund The Code Project for help in finding sponsors.

Links

Bastien Guerry - EmacsWiki

Org mode

_DINSIC

Etalab

Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général

Presidential Innovation Fellows

https://bzg.fr/en/donating-to-free-software-and-free-culture.html/

https://libraries.io/

https://backyourstack.com/

http://themaintainers.org/

Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) | Twitter

Maintainers III: Practice, Policy and Care

https://publiccode.net/

https://www.fundthecode.org/

http://openmodels.fr/en/

SOS 005: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui

Open Source & Software Development | O'Reilly OSCON

Picks

Eric Berry:

Software Freedom Conservancy

Richard Littauer:

The Internet is a City

https://www.amazon.com/Chomsky-Anarchism-Noam/dp/1904859208

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_(bookstore)

Bastien Guerry:

https://www.writethedocs.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio

Special Guest: Bastien Guerry.

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