[Numpy-discussion] Tidelift

[Andy Ray Terrel]

I've forwarded Donald this conversation. He said he is working on some of
the finer details. He's up for chatting more in NYC next week so if we want
to collect a set of questions it might be easy to get them all figured out
there.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:06 PM Stefan van der Walt <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:54:16 -0500, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
> > FYI, Donald Fischer will be at the NumFOCUS forum next week if folks want
> > to talk to him about it. It looks like individuals sign up with Tidelift
> > and perform services to be paid this money. Looking at the contract it
> > doesn't seem like something that works with anything but individuals or
> for
> > profit companies. Thus I don't know that "Numpy is eligible" more that
> > "Numpy developers are eligible".
>
> On the website, they ask that all the maintainers discuss together how
> the funds will be applied (the total given is for the project as a
> whole).
>
> This seems tricky: all the maintainers are spending their time on the
> project.  Which ones will get paid?  Will the ones getting paid be
> expected to put in extra hours on top of what they are already doing, or
> will they carry a more "formal" responsibility?  Perhaps it makes sense
> to fund specific activities, such as being release manager, that
> increase the amount of time donated to the project?
>
> There are other subtleties: some developers work for companies that do
> not allow them to get paid for external consulting, others have visa
> issues that prevent them from working for compensation.
>
> One useful gain could be to incentivize those who would otherwise not be
> able to contribute.  Parents taking care of children, those who take
> second jobs to survive, students, etc. [0]
>
> Best regards,
> Stéfan
>
>
> [0] Quoting Fernando Pérez: "When people are expected to work on open
>     source software for free, only the people who can afford to work for
>     free can participate".
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