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Marco Rogers @polotek@social.polotek.net
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I feel like I'm gonna get into a lot of trouble if I keep asking this question. But fr fr. If this is taking up a significant portion of your time such that you can't make ends meet doing other things, is it really "volunteering"?

Many orgs that do have money still accept volunteer hours. Maybe we should be using a different word for the people who need to get paid in order to keep doing this.
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Marco Rogers @polotek@social.polotek.net
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If you're doing something because you're hoping it becomes important enough to generate money, just say that. That's not volunteer work though. It's actually entrepreneurship. That's actually a good thing. And I wish more open source people would lean into it.

If you want people to pay for a certain future to exist, that's cool too. That's called philanthropy. Also not the same as volunteering. For instance, you really have to tell people a story about what that future looks like.
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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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