
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
A new path to full-time open source (Interview)
Mar 29, 2023 · 1 hr 4 min · 62.0 MB
0:00-1:04:22
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After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone exactly how he’s making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source.
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Show Notes:
- Filippo on Go Time talking fuzzing
- Filippo on Go Time talking security
- I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer
- age file encryption
- mkcert
- yubikey-agent
- Lemonade Stand
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 0:52Sponsor: Postman
- 3:41Welcoming Filippo to the show
- 6:45Filippo's open source projects
- 16:30Corporate sponsorship doesn't scale
- 19:36Experimenting with a new model
- 23:28Benefiting both parties
- 33:30Detailing the agreement terms
- 37:23A success path that grows
- 40:19Refining the sales pitch
- 44:18Sponsor: Sentry
- 46:24The most common objection
- 53:16Proving the model over time
- 54:49A place for punditry perhaps?
- 57:29The best way to connect with Filippo
- 59:33Name it to tame it
- 1:01:37Wrapping up
- 1:02:11Outro (join Changelog++!)