Daily. It’s my job.
Lucky bastard!
(Thank you 😉 )
It’s more common than you might think. A lot of companies have open source codebases. In fact, I think almost every software engineer job I’ve had so far have had at least a little public code.
That has been somewhat my experience too, but it’s rare to find somebody working on such code every day. It’s enviable to me.
NC is not for code. Its literally the cancer that prevents people from being able to have a job developing FOSS
I try to contribute as much info as I can to Open Street Map on my walks.
Is there an app that makes this easier to do? I want to contribute but I don’t see a setting or option in osmand
Have you heard of StreetComplete on Android?
Nope I haven’t! Thanks for the link!
StreetComplete is the one I use, although there’s a handful. It’s on both the play store and Fdroid
Awesome, thank you!
!openstreetmap@lemmy.ml has couple of post about apps
I use street complete, every door, and vespucci depending on what I want to map
Ah ok, thanks!
104 contributions in last year on codeberg, 52 contributions on github (some are duplicated from codeberg due to mirroring), some more in other places.
code: null, nada, nothing. dunno how issues: maybe 30 in 9 years using gnu/linux money: 1% of my income for 5 years now, to whatever project i find cool, mostly smaller ones tho
@const_void every time i think i can help a project with a feature i need
I hope to one day, but I don’t have any programming skills to speak of
There are many ways to contribute. I actually read an article about that a couple of days ago, maybe it will be of interest to you, too: https://github.com/readme/featured/open-source-non-code-contributions
That’s a really great article, thank you for the link! That was informative and educational and I am a fan.
I can’t code either but I’m supporting new users in selected forums on a daily basis and I volunteer at our local linux event once a year.
My main hobby is designing and programming embedded devices, and anything I create gets slapped up on my github in case anyone else can use it. Schematics, code, whatever.
I have a side hustle of selling the PCBs I make, but I have absolutely no problems with someone making a clone of my designs. It’s not like they’re super advanced tech. Anyone can figure out what I’ve figured out.
My job is contributing to the building of an open source project full of shared tools and resources for businesses in my industry to share. I am part of a team of skilled developers and citizen developers across my industry that work to create shared FOSS tools to make all of us more efficient at our work.
So about 60 hours per week.
Do you get paid decently to do this?
I make a 6-figure salary. I should specify that the tools and software I help create are used by data analysts. I am treated in my company like a data engineer.
As much as I can. I can’t code at all and don’t work in IT, but at least I try to help newcomers as much as I can, publish my work as OS license, try to heat up as much traffic as I can on Lemmy (especially for non-tech stuff) and report bugs whenever I find them.
I can’t do much more :(Its practically been all my free time in the past 14 years
☝️ the Man
Since for the most part i still suck at programming; i help translating programs in my main language since i needed to learn english for my job regardless.
Whenever I can. Currently I‘m a bit short on change so I just contribute work. Did some translations, filed bugs, raised awareness and helped others use open source software. I also try to learn to code good enough to fix things in projects but I‘m not there yet.
- I have commits accepted to major projects you have heard of. Mainly because I have no patience for a poorly worded README.
- I co-maintain a couple of mildly popular things you almost certainly haven’t even heard of.
- I solely maintain a half dozen utilities that are only used by myself and some brave souls who randomly found them on GitHub.
TL;DR: I am an open source hipster, because “you probably haven’t heard of” my work, but I think it’s pretty keen.
Monthly donations and code once in a while when I run into a bug or require a feature and have time.
Semi-regularly.
I fairly often send patches for small bug fixes and features. I also maintain a few packages in nixpkgs. I also forked an abandoned project to provide some fixes and updates, so I maintain that now.
I also try to give a donation to an open-source project that I use every couple of months.
I also have a bunch of my own projects that I released as open source, but I don’t think that is really what the question is asking.
