[kylecesmat]

Formidable employee here: To be quite honest we are compensated very fairly for our industry already and this program is not meant to ‘provide a living wage’ by any means.

Instead, this is a ‘fair nod’ at the work some of us feel compelled and motivated to do after work hours.

Not saying your perspective is wrong, just hopefully providing a bit more context about what this program means for someone who uses it.

[SequoiaHope]

I get that. I work ten hours a week or so for free on my open source passion projects. If that turned in to an extra $200 a week that would be cool - I’m doing the work anyway.

I haven’t read the article yet but my only fear with crowd funding is what happens when I want to take a month off of technical work.

[stingraycharles]

As someone who supports several developers, I hope you take as much holiday as you need. I mostly support it to increase the chance of the project surviving in the long term, and as a token of appreciation of your past contributions.

[wazanator]

You can pause patreon campaigns. If you're open about your work life balance and how you need to take a month off from the project I think most people will understand that.

[est31]

You're an employee so you can answer the question: does Formidable take copyright ownership of the open source contributions provided by you? Do you have to ask your employer if you want to change licenses for your open source projects?

[exogen]

No and no.

[Boygirl]

I think the only stipulation is that work needs to eventually be made available to the public under some open source license.

[anderspitman]

And I'd assume you guys have some employees who are paid competitive salaries by Formidable and end up working almost exclusively on your open source code anyway, right?

[systematical]

This is awesome. If my employer did this I'd probably take a lot of that money and donate to other OSS and charity since I'd neebed working on OSS regardless.