{"id":392,"date":"2008-10-29T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T00:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=392"},"modified":"2008-10-29T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T00:04:43","slug":"contributing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/10\/contributing\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim has a post<\/a> where he advises developers to con\u00adtrib\u00adute to open source pro\u00adjects so that hir\u00ading man\u00adagers will look favour\u00adably on them. I have some prob\u00adlems with this, as do many of the com\u00admenters on his post. <\/p>\n

First off, I agree that con\u00adtrib\u00adut\u00ading to open source pro\u00adjects is admir\u00adable and to be encour\u00adaged. There are, how\u00adever, a num\u00adber of developers who work for com\u00adpan\u00adies with employ\u00adment con\u00adtracts that say, more or less, any\u00adthing vaguely code-related that you come up with while employed by us is ours, not yours. Which means con\u00adtrib\u00adut\u00ading any code to any out\u00adside pro\u00adject is liable to cause prob\u00adlems, or at least a cer\u00adtain num\u00adber of hurdles. There are oth\u00ader ways of con\u00adtrib\u00adut\u00ading to any com\u00admunity that are argu\u00adably just as valu\u00adable, such as tak\u00ading part in organ\u00adising events such as loc\u00adal con\u00adfer\u00adences, volun\u00adteer\u00ading at loc\u00adal centres that teach people how to use com\u00adputers, assist\u00ading users on web for\u00adums, or teach\u00ading at loc\u00adal com\u00admunity col\u00adleges. Con\u00adcen\u00adtrat\u00ading on writ\u00ading code for open source pro\u00adjects seems restricting.<\/p>\n

The second issue is that it\u2019s dis\u00adcrim\u00adin\u00adat\u00adory against those who simply don\u2019t have the time. Work\u00ading single par\u00adents suf\u00adfer par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly from this issue, but any work\u00ading par\u00adents of school-age or young\u00ader chil\u00addren have the prob\u00adlem to some extent. By the time you\u2019ve picked the chil\u00addren up from school or day care, fed them and the rest of the fam\u00adily, cleaned up, taken them off to sports\/music\/whatever, helped with home\u00adwork, and done the laun\u00addry or whatever oth\u00ader chores are neces\u00adsary for that day, all you really have energy for is to unwind and relax. Espe\u00adcially if you sus\u00adpect that the tod\u00addler will sleep as badly as pre\u00advi\u00adous nights this week, wak\u00ading you up at mid\u00adnight, 4 am, and 6 am. When you have to be awake for the day job, as that\u2019s the one that\u2019s cur\u00adrently pay\u00ading the bills, stay\u00ading awake into the wee hours isn\u2019t an option for those who need more than just a few hours sleep a night to func\u00adtion prop\u00aderly. No mat\u00adter how pas\u00adsion\u00adate they are about coding.<\/p>\n

In my case, the pro\u00adject I\u2019m work\u00ading on for my day job is the one I think about in spare hours at night and at week\u00adends. If I were writ\u00ading code, I\u2019d be writ\u00ading code for that pro\u00adject in pref\u00ader\u00adence to an unre\u00adlated open source pro\u00adject. I don\u2019t think that atti\u00adtude should be pen\u00adal\u00adised by hir\u00ading man\u00adagers either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim has a post where he advises developers to con\u00adtrib\u00adute to open source pro\u00adjects so that hir\u00ading man\u00adagers will look favour\u00adably on them. I have some prob\u00adlems with this, as do many of the com\u00admenters on his post.  First off, I agree that con\u00adtrib\u00adut\u00ading to open source pro\u00adjects is admir\u00adable and to be encour\u00adaged. There are, \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cCon\u00adtrib\u00adut\u00ading\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-general","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}