“When I had a call with [the project sponsor] NLnet recently, I was told ‘you work for the internet now’. And that evoked the most powerful feeling of purpose and drive I’ve ever felt in my life.”
“Although my funding is for Spectrum, I expect to be able to work on free software much more broadly over the next year. Certainly, a lot of my work will make its way into Nixpkgs, which I was very excited to receive commit access to some months ago due to my other work on it. And there are some further projects of my own to come as well. In addition to working on Spectrum, I’d like to diversify my funding. I hope to be able to take donations for my free software work on Spectrum and other projects, to make this important work truly sustainable for me. I couldn’t sensibly do this before, because I couldn’t guarantee that I’d have any time to spend working on what people would be giving me money for, but, in this new arrangement, I have a lot more freedom and capacity to choose how I spend my time. I don’t expect donation income to pay my bills, or even be significant, but I’d like to explore it, and until now I haven’t had the space to do that.”
https://alyssa.is/leaving-freeagent/
“When I had a call with [the project sponsor] NLnet recently, I was told ‘you work for the internet now’. And that evoked the most powerful feeling of purpose and drive I’ve ever felt in my life.”
“Although my funding is for Spectrum, I expect to be able to work on free software much more broadly over the next year. Certainly, a lot of my work will make its way into Nixpkgs, which I was very excited to receive commit access to some months ago due to my other work on it. And there are some further projects of my own to come as well. In addition to working on Spectrum, I’d like to diversify my funding. I hope to be able to take donations for my free software work on Spectrum and other projects, to make this important work truly sustainable for me. I couldn’t sensibly do this before, because I couldn’t guarantee that I’d have any time to spend working on what people would be giving me money for, but, in this new arrangement, I have a lot more freedom and capacity to choose how I spend my time. I don’t expect donation income to pay my bills, or even be significant, but I’d like to explore it, and until now I haven’t had the space to do that.”