Episode 6: Open Source Software Maintenance Lessons Learned with Bastien Guerry

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Panel



Eric Berry




Richard Littauer




Joined By Special Guest: Bastien Guerry
Episode Summary

Bastien Guerry is employed by the French Administration in a
program named Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général inspired by
Presidential Innovation Fellows. He is also the Release Manager
of Org Mode, an information management and outlining tool for
Emacs.


Bastien wrote his first software for his girlfriend to help her
with her thesis. He then went onto maintain Org Mode between
years 2011 and 2015. Bastien likens open source software
maintainers' job to that of stay-at-home mothers' job
description, as both are a lot of work and involve a lot of
responsibility and stress and both are not compensated
financially.


The panel then ask about the evolution of Fund The Code Project
which supports the free software movement by donations from
sponsors. Bastien invites free software maintainers to contact
Fund The Code Project for help in finding sponsors.
Links



Bastien Guerry - EmacsWiki




Org mode




_DINSIC




Etalab




Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général




Presidential Innovation Fellows




https://bzg.fr/en/donating-to-free-software-and-free-culture.html/




https://libraries.io/




https://backyourstack.com/




http://themaintainers.org/




Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) | Twitter




Maintainers III: Practice, Policy and Care




https://publiccode.net/




https://www.fundthecode.org/




http://openmodels.fr/en/




SOS 005: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi
Medjaoui




Open Source & Software Development | O'Reilly OSCON


Picks

Eric Berry:




Software Freedom Conservancy




Richard Littauer:




The Internet is a City




https://www.amazon.com/Chomsky-Anarchism-Noam/dp/1904859208




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_(bookstore)




Bastien Guerry:




https://www.writethedocs.org




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio


Special Guest: Bastien Guerry.