Episode 6: Open Source Software Maintenance Lessons Learned with Bastien Guerry
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Eric Berry
Richard Littauer
Joined By Special Guest: Bastien Guerry
Episode SummaryBastien 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.
LinksBastien Guerry - EmacsWiki
Org mode
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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
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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