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by bbor
630 days ago
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Thanks for the correction and expertise! Sometimes I think I've got a handle on companies, and then I see one with a director and a president and they're both on the board but the director fills two seats somehow, even though they should definitely have none. Anyway, I'm sure she's involved in all of this now, if she wasn't before! I absolutely agree that it's not necessarily directly relevant, but I feel like the undercurrent is clear: people are mad that Python leadership has caught The Woke Mind Virus(tm), and is out of touch. This all seems to have bubbled forth from that, and as is predictable for political discussions on the internet, it's gotten heated. She also shouts out "Strive for healthy debate and consensus" as her top priority as chair in the achievements PDF linked by Simon, which seems like a strong sign that she's trying to improve all this. Re:grants, yeah I wonder what the final breakdown is, I can't really find it. They do have "Developers in Residence" now, which is presumably old news to you/y'all but awfully cool to me. The sooner we end this era of "the entire world runs on the good will of bored nerds volunteering their time", the better. |
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Yes - three of them, out of dozens of core developers, selected by a process I can't discern. Of course, right now the money simply isn't there to compensate everyone appropriately. (But one wonders why the Steering Council apparently suddenly requires a "Communications Liaison".)
>The sooner we end this era of "the entire world runs on the good will of bored nerds volunteering their time", the better.
Python is nowhere near the only project with this problem. If you appreciate the fact that your computer can properly display text in non-European languages, consider offering some support to Behdad Esfahbod, main developer of Harfbuzz (https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz).
As far as I can tell, Linux and Mozilla are the only two open-source organizations that have any significant revenue behind them. Most are probably even worse off than Python.