I agree with the sentiment of not doing anything for free that you hope to make a living off of it, but I do think that Writing is a slight exception. I just have to be careful about *what* I make available for free.
@RL_Dane@cobra@alcinnz@dheadshot ... My personal tendency is to lean toward putting things out there for free with permissive licenses to get yourself known, then to try and make some money off of your newfound popularity, prehaps by selling a service like hosting for a FOSS project you made.
@RL_Dane@cobra@alcinnz@dheadshot this is just another capitalism problem. universal healthcare for example would do a lot more for promoting people writing free software than, coming up with weird ways to pay people to make something that is free.
What do YOU feel #FOSS needs in order to embrace #UX? There are clearly going to be teams that 'just don't get it" and I'm well past worrying about them.
But there are teams that truly want better UX. I want to understand their needs. I'm assuming much of it is just having a better grasp of what #UXDesign wants to offer: broader exploration (and research) so the conversation can be more grounded and drive shared team decision making.
That makes sense, I submitted an issue to a project because they were using a fairly not-well-thought-out custom license. They listened and changed it to MIT, iirc.
But that was my reasoning: you're hurting adoption by not using a recognizable license.
What about a non-commercial-above-100-employees license? ;)
As the COMM major my tendency is to lean toward being good at marketing yourself. ;)
Here's the thing about licensing: for someone starting out in a field like writing or coding freelance, the concern is less that people will pirate your work or make it proprietary and more that they'll never run into it at all because your license was restrictive and people weren't sharing it. ...
I remember hearing rms say that he paid the rent for several years by selling tapes of EMACS to people by mail.
With all FOSS projects being online, that's no longer a possibility.
I know it wouldn't be truly Free, but I'm wondering if something like CC BY-NC would be beneficial, or if people just need to be better at marketing themselves.
So. I have a #developer question as it relates to #blind and vision impaired #programmers. What's the current status for blind developers wanting to create #accessible applications, particularly across platforms? I know there's WxWidgets and support libraries for creating #gui applications, but what about creating for #Apple#macOS and #iOS? #Programming
Working on my "UX and Open Source" talk, it's clear the challenges are much the same as with proprietary software: you either understand what UX has to offer or not. The key difference is philosophical.
Some FOSS teams feel central control is unnecessary. As UX is often about making hard tradeoffs, it feels counter to the culture.
However, FOSS teams need to make hard technical decisions all the time: they DO have (some) central control! UX is no different
@scottjenson I'd say the main issue FOSS projects typically have in embracing UX is in understanding how to fit UX designers into their workflow.
Our workflows are built around developers breaking down problems & building up solutions. So often the mistake is made to point UX designers to individual issues.
Or other times it is hard to bring a UX designer to dedicate necessary time to a project.
Probably what's needed is to tutor interested project leaders in UX!
I think I've now transliterated the unittests that are currently relevant to me. Maybe if I explored more I'll find more, but what I have now should give me half-decent code coverage!
And it has helped me catch some crashes & miscalculations. I think I need to enable some compiler warnings!
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I was lucky he did, because in the most embarrassing meeting I've ever been in, our in house counsel and insurance company counsel said they'd pay $300 an hour to defend me. It was a bullshit case and they were kind of offended it was happening
I went out and found an attorney, who quicky wrote a brief to remove me from the case, citing Section 230. Not that being called a knucklehead wasn't defamation or that I had some sort of first amendment right. But section 230 was the quickest route /2
I write a personal blog hosted on blogger dot com talking about the history and politics of the town I live in. One time, some anonymous commenter came by and called a local serial pro se litigant a "knucklehead"
That pro se litigant, who is famous and well regarded for taking local governments to court over PRA sued me for "defamation"
He also sued my work, which was super not connected to personal blog /1
Transliterating some of Ian Hixie's unittests into something automated, less visual, & more specific to me it appears that CatTrap block layout is working!
A browser developer posting mostly about how free software projects work, and occasionally about climate change.Though I do enjoy german board games given an opponent.Pronouns: he/him#noindex