From 81bd714baa5001f3565ea4f008dee90821a27795 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henry Zhu Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 21:14:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Create email.md --- email.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 email.md diff --git a/email.md b/email.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b13789 --- /dev/null +++ b/email.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + From 3bb6dc7d793d6b5d2dfab623c64d5c5e070a3f01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henry Zhu Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 21:16:33 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/5] Update email.md --- email.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/email.md b/email.md index 8b13789..8982baf 100644 --- a/email.md +++ b/email.md @@ -1 +1,5 @@ +> just a WIP to get started +Sorry, I'm not currently interested! I'm looking for a company that cares about the open source community: whether it be donating to important projects that the company uses (like on opencollective.com), contributing developer time during work hours to fix bugs, report issues, even maintain a project, or even doing a matching donation similar to a non-profit (maybe give $50 a month to employees for them to choose). If you have any questions about that I'd be happy to explain. + +Thanks! From 69c3ce9053b299fd04095286608921e4b9ba5d38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henry Zhu Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 21:35:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Update email.md --- email.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/email.md b/email.md index 8982baf..6d3b539 100644 --- a/email.md +++ b/email.md @@ -1,5 +1,19 @@ > just a WIP to get started +## Possible Goals? + +- Inform companies/recruiters about what kinds of companies we are looking for (in this case more support for open source) +- Clear up possible misunderstandings on what open source is/means, how they are looking for talent + - Having commits or not doesn't mean much: https://twitter.com/aweary/status/926908058076299264 + - Having 1 repo in a language/framework doesn't mean I want to work in that language or care + - etc +- Explain ways that companies that support open source and why that is a positive perk that we are going to be looking out for + - Donations to projects that are used (instead of just saying "we use Babel, JSX, ES6, etc", wouldn't it be amazing to see "we have been sponsoring Babel with $10k/month for the last year because we care about supporting projects that we fundamentally rely on" + - Developer time: "We contribute to open source" vs. "we allow our developers to: spend 20% time, or 1 day a week, or weekly hackathons, or employ a maintainer of Babel" + - Monthyl donation stipend: "we allow our developers to distribute $50 a month to the open source project of their liking" + +## Email Response + Sorry, I'm not currently interested! I'm looking for a company that cares about the open source community: whether it be donating to important projects that the company uses (like on opencollective.com), contributing developer time during work hours to fix bugs, report issues, even maintain a project, or even doing a matching donation similar to a non-profit (maybe give $50 a month to employees for them to choose). If you have any questions about that I'd be happy to explain. Thanks! From 6b82e3a8a539ec5ea9d3de54cdcad06c8a6b1351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henry Zhu Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 09:53:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Update email.md --- email.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/email.md b/email.md index 6d3b539..8277588 100644 --- a/email.md +++ b/email.md @@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ - Explain ways that companies that support open source and why that is a positive perk that we are going to be looking out for - Donations to projects that are used (instead of just saying "we use Babel, JSX, ES6, etc", wouldn't it be amazing to see "we have been sponsoring Babel with $10k/month for the last year because we care about supporting projects that we fundamentally rely on" - Developer time: "We contribute to open source" vs. "we allow our developers to: spend 20% time, or 1 day a week, or weekly hackathons, or employ a maintainer of Babel" - - Monthyl donation stipend: "we allow our developers to distribute $50 a month to the open source project of their liking" + - Monthly donation stipend: "we allow our developers to distribute $50 a month to the open source project of their liking" ## Email Response -Sorry, I'm not currently interested! I'm looking for a company that cares about the open source community: whether it be donating to important projects that the company uses (like on opencollective.com), contributing developer time during work hours to fix bugs, report issues, even maintain a project, or even doing a matching donation similar to a non-profit (maybe give $50 a month to employees for them to choose). If you have any questions about that I'd be happy to explain. +Thanks for reaching out! I'd be more interested in a company that supports the open source community more: whether it be donating to important projects that the company uses (like on opencollective.com), contributing developer time during work hours to fix bugs, report issues, even maintain a project, or even doing a matching donation similar to a non-profit (maybe give $50 a month to employees for them to choose). If you have any questions about that I'd be happy to explain. Thanks! From 953b17c80c5d7287200a92437fdd50a58bc45afd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Neal Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 11:40:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Update email.md (#43) --- email.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/email.md b/email.md index 8277588..acb0740 100644 --- a/email.md +++ b/email.md @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ - Having commits or not doesn't mean much: https://twitter.com/aweary/status/926908058076299264 - Having 1 repo in a language/framework doesn't mean I want to work in that language or care - etc +- Reminder recruiters of economic development benefits (and therefore economic benefits) of open source - Explain ways that companies that support open source and why that is a positive perk that we are going to be looking out for - Donations to projects that are used (instead of just saying "we use Babel, JSX, ES6, etc", wouldn't it be amazing to see "we have been sponsoring Babel with $10k/month for the last year because we care about supporting projects that we fundamentally rely on" - Developer time: "We contribute to open source" vs. "we allow our developers to: spend 20% time, or 1 day a week, or weekly hackathons, or employ a maintainer of Babel"