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Fix misleading Django success in Crowdfunding case studies #8

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jezdez opened this issue Jun 17, 2016 · 3 comments
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Fix misleading Django success in Crowdfunding case studies #8

jezdez opened this issue Jun 17, 2016 · 3 comments

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@jezdez
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jezdez commented Jun 17, 2016

As noted on the here Andrew's campaign wasn't an official crowdfunding effort by the Django project, which is an important distinction to for example's Django's own only partially successful efforts to raise funds for the Django Software Foundation -- and indirectly to pay for the Django Fellowship Program (et al).

As a fellow Django core developer who was not successful at making a living while working on Django full or even half time (despite having served as core dev, DSF director, OPs team member, translation manager, conference chair and speaker etc) I'd like to humbly point out that Andrew's success should not be advertised as the default for working on Django or in its community. There are many cautionary tales obviously and I know I'm biased, but I do feel a responsibility to prevent creating wrong expectations about the financial viability of direct work on Django.

I understand the intent of this repo, and I appreciate your efforts tremendously, the Open/Public Source community has a problem of funding, just wanted to set the record straight from my point of view. Please feel free to reach out to other Django devs to verify my claims if needed :)

@jezdez jezdez changed the title Fix misleading Django succes in Crowdfunding case studies Fix misleading Django success in Crowdfunding case studies Jun 17, 2016
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nayafia commented Jun 20, 2016

hi! that's understandable. I didn't mean to imply that Andrew's work was an official Django effort (and figured that was apparent since Andrew says so in his campaign description).

This question of the individual vs. the project came up in #1 as well. I think it's a tough balance because individual work on a project is de facto project work, yet I understand there is a distinction when a project has other governance in place.

I'm going to go back through the case studies and mark when it's an individual's work. For example, instead of "Django", calling it "Andrew Godwin's work on Django" or something of the like. Hopefully that will help clarify.

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Per issues #1 and #8, I revised the language to make it clear when a funding effort was led by an individual vs. a project. Some of these cases are somewhat vague (ex. when a project consists of only one person), but I did my best. The distinction matters more IMO when a project is very big and has separate governance (ex. Django). Feel free to open an issue if you see one that you think is marked incorrectly!
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nayafia commented Jun 20, 2016

see commit above. hope that helps!

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jezdez commented Jun 20, 2016

@nayafia Excellent, thank you for the changes, they make it obvious and it still hopefully encourages others enough to work on Django. Thanks!

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