Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects

Re:Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects by majewsky on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:14AM (#11959517)

> The dollar amounts are too low to hire a full-time dev.

It depends. In Germany, I could easily live off a net salary of 800 € or something (where 1 € = 1 $ approximately), so the gross salary would be below 1500 €. Therefore a 20000 € award could keep me covered for at least a year.

Other countries are cheaper, still. Executive summary: Don't spend the money on Bay Area devs. ;)

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Re:Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects by S4M on Thursday June 23, 2016 @05:22AM (#11959731)

While that is true, that salary is way inferior to market salaries of programmers in Germany (I don't live there but I assume junior programmers are pay 30k/year at least), so the project won't be able to attract good candidates - but it's good enough to pay intern or part time programmers so it's still something.

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Re:Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects by IshKebab on Thursday June 23, 2016 @09:25AM (#11960661)

Yeah but I'm willing to bet people are willing work on their own project for a lot less money than their employer's project.

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Re:Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects by majewsky on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:59AM (#11969048)

Yes, this was what I'm getting at. I was thinking: "How much would I need if I wanted to work on my own projects?"

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