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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Well believe it gramps, most of the open source projects contributors now either just do content creation as a side hustle or are permanently looking for work, at least in my experience

[–] BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

"most" open source project contributors are looking for work? Lol ok bud

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

IDK about most. But, I've seen many OS contributors say they're looking for work. Seen one recently saying he won't be contributing much to the project anymore because he's housing-insecure. Seen maintainers for popular projects get laid off and are now looking for work. Seen people with 10+ and 20+ years of experience not being able to find a job after many months.

[–] BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah there are obviously unfortunate cases. But to put another unsourced number out there I would say 90% of open source maintainers are employed in some way or even directly to work on that thing.

The point of bringing it up is that those people would gladly give a pass on an interview to someone they already know contributes than some random graduate they don't know.

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