Was reading this article, and it got me thinking. There’s lots of people who are happy to complain at length, but what if we made it a point to pick a particular day each year to express our collective gratitude for the work people do for FOSS?
Whether in the form of donations or kind words (maybe even joining a project), it might be something that helps keep people going on the things they love but for which they don’t get a lot of appreciation.
Curious to hear y’all’s thoughts.
Edit: Someone mentioned I Love Free Software Day, which is cool that it exists. I like the idea behind it, but I’m hesitant to piggyback upon a well-known holiday, for fear of being wholly overshadowed (Valentine’s Day is already stressful enough for some people).
I haven’t put out any FOSS yet because I’m still writing a lot of “wtf is this” code but once I can I really want to try to hold myself to the idea of “I do this in my free time, so I provide it for free”
There’s that old adage:
Seems people mostly want Cheap and Good, so they just have to deal with results not being quick.