The problem is always how you divide, particularly for libraries. It is hard to rightly estimate. For better or for worse, we should have a union of open source developers and they should divide it up. Just pay the union and they will share that democratically amongst themselves, deciding their own criterias, sorting out edge cases, having a way to process disagreements, etc
It’s not as simple as having an idea. Everyone can have great ideas, the problem is getting everyone on board and figuring everything else out. I’m not a FOSS dev so I don’t have a foot in the community to pitch that. Don’t mean to shut you down but it is probably more complicated than I made it out to be, otherwise it would probably exist in some shape
Thanks for mentioning its not your intent to shut me down. The issue we have isnt lack of people getting on board but every idea having millions of different people pulling them in different directions.
Example: I filed a complaint against apple for privacy violations. Seems like nobody else did it in this particular case and thats despite millions of people using their devices and being affected by this thing, even talking about it on reddit and here.
The problem really isnt getting people on board, it is pushing for stuff to become reality.
In this case, there are many stakeholders involved. Volunteers, developers on corporate payroll, etc. That alone adds complexity to any solution. Doesn’t men no solution can be found, but adds to the inertia since it requires more effort
I agree. But thats also why I think its best to push as far as one can and hope for others to join or take over once the original person/people are out of steam. This works with founding companies, groups and other movements. This ultimately leads me back to my initial: please make a post, I‘ll join you. Does it make more sense now?
You mean make a post on Lemmy? For me the root problem is still here: I have no contacts in the (admittedly extremely wide) industry and could not build a platform for people to register their projects to. I can only draw the outline of how this thing would work
Edit: I’ll try to write something down and make a post somewhere. Any community suggestions?
Which is no problem. Causes dont need the most connected, born leader types. They need to start somewhere is all. If its meant to be, it will grow. Everything else is perfectionism imo.
Depending on the spin, its either interesting for the fediverse, opensource or something else. You can hit me up in dms with a draft if you want.
The problem is always how you divide, particularly for libraries. It is hard to rightly estimate. For better or for worse, we should have a union of open source developers and they should divide it up. Just pay the union and they will share that democratically amongst themselves, deciding their own criterias, sorting out edge cases, having a way to process disagreements, etc
So like the wikimedia or openstreetmap foundations?
For all I care the FSF could handle this actually
Thats an insane idea! Where can I sign up? Please make a post about it!
It’s not as simple as having an idea. Everyone can have great ideas, the problem is getting everyone on board and figuring everything else out. I’m not a FOSS dev so I don’t have a foot in the community to pitch that. Don’t mean to shut you down but it is probably more complicated than I made it out to be, otherwise it would probably exist in some shape
Thanks for mentioning its not your intent to shut me down. The issue we have isnt lack of people getting on board but every idea having millions of different people pulling them in different directions.
Example: I filed a complaint against apple for privacy violations. Seems like nobody else did it in this particular case and thats despite millions of people using their devices and being affected by this thing, even talking about it on reddit and here.
The problem really isnt getting people on board, it is pushing for stuff to become reality.
In this case, there are many stakeholders involved. Volunteers, developers on corporate payroll, etc. That alone adds complexity to any solution. Doesn’t men no solution can be found, but adds to the inertia since it requires more effort
I agree. But thats also why I think its best to push as far as one can and hope for others to join or take over once the original person/people are out of steam. This works with founding companies, groups and other movements. This ultimately leads me back to my initial: please make a post, I‘ll join you. Does it make more sense now?
You mean make a post on Lemmy? For me the root problem is still here: I have no contacts in the (admittedly extremely wide) industry and could not build a platform for people to register their projects to. I can only draw the outline of how this thing would work
Edit: I’ll try to write something down and make a post somewhere. Any community suggestions?
Please post it in /c/freesoftware@lemmy.zip.
Which is no problem. Causes dont need the most connected, born leader types. They need to start somewhere is all. If its meant to be, it will grow. Everything else is perfectionism imo.
Depending on the spin, its either interesting for the fediverse, opensource or something else. You can hit me up in dms with a draft if you want.