Open Source Economics (is not what you think)

What open source economics aren't, are and the solutions for open source economic problems.

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1. Open Source Economics
   
   
   (is not what you think)
   
   
   💷👩💻🌍🧘🥳
   @MikeMcQuaid
   

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2. Staff Engineer in Communities
   (GitHub Engineer 2013 – Present)
   

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3. Project Leader on Homebrew
   (Homebrew Maintainer 2009 – Present)
   

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4. 👎 What aren’t Open Source Economics
   
   
   👍 What are Open Source Economics?
   
   
   👩🔧 What are some solutions?
   

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5. What aren’t 👎
   
   
   Open Source
   
   
   Economics?
   

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6. Economics:
   

   how 💵💶💷💴 flows
   
   
   around an economy?
   

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7. OSS Economics:
   

   how 💵💶💷💴 flows
   
   
   between projects?
   

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8. GitHub Sponsors
   

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9. OSS problems:
   

   Solution: 💵💶💷💴
   
   
   fixes all problems?
   

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10. What are 👍
    
    
    Open Source
    Economics?
    

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11. Economic problem:
    

    Allocation of limited
    resources (💵💶💷💴)?
    

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12. OSS Economic problem:
    

    Allocation of limited
    maintainers (👩💻👪🧑💻)
    

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13. The Open Source Contributor Funnel
    https://mikemcquaid.com/2018/08/14/the-open-source-contributor-funnel/
    

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14. Maintainer allocation:
    

    Help 🌍 or help 🙋?
    

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15. Nadia Eghbal,
    
    
    Working in Public
    A tragedy of the commons
    occurs not from consumers over-
    appropriating the content itself,
    but from consumers over-
    appropriating a creator’s
    attention.
    

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16. Maintainer time:
    

    More 💵💶💷💴
    
    
    means more ⏰ ?
    

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17. Maintainer income:
    

    How much 💵💶💷💴 

    to work full-time?
    

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18. What are 👩🔧
    
    
    some
    
    
    solutions?
    

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19. How to Focus
    

    🧘 🧘
    

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20. GitHub Actions
    

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21. actions/stale
    

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22. GitHub Discussions
    

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23. Issue Forms
    

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24. Maintainer focus:
    

    Enjoyment! 😍🥰🤪🥳
    

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25. How to Spend Money
    

    💵 💶 💷 💴
    

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26. Pay maintainers:
    

    GitHub Sponsors == 💵💶💷💴
    for their work
    

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27. Outreachy
    

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28. OSS Economics:
    

    🧘 🧘 + 💵💶💷💴
    
    
    == 😍🥰🤪🥳
    https://mikemcquaid.com/2021/10/27/open-source-economics/
    

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