Notices by Bobby Moss (trechnex@social.trechnex.com)

@aral @kissane their other "fun" trick, if the project hasn't produced a first release yet, is spreading false allegations of impropriety. That spooks contributors & makes people fear for their jobs, so they end up closing all the donation portals!

One of the understated benefits of Open Collective is that it's handled by a trusted legal source & publishes everything publicly in real time. That eliminates trust as an issue.

Funnily enough, right-leaning white guys are just implicitly trusted.

@aral I’m amused by the idea of your brain deciding, “right, you’ve had enough fun dreams for one night. It’s time for you to do some imaginary chores!“ 😂

@aral the community originally let corporations in because we all wanted full-time salaries. It worked! 🤷🏻♂️

The faustian bargain we made though has come home to roost. Corporations exploit unpaid chumps who are asked to produce "portfolio side-projects" to "demonstrate passion" before they interview. Their work is so devalued that Microsoft is using it to train an algorithm that doesn't credit them at all. 🤦🏻♂️

Perhaps a more equitable commons looks more like ethical source? https://ethicalsource.dev/what-we-believe/

@aral fwiw the Orca project links are here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca

GNOME project hosts its own Gitlab server with bug tracker, so they might not have visibility on this. 🤔