S10:E2 - What are the pros and cons of getting paid for open source (Katie Delfin)

For all of the benefits of open source, such as pushing innovation and creating huge collaborative ways to build powerful products, there are also very legitimate concerns in terms of sustainability, exploitation of new developers, and the privilege of who actually has the time and resources to contribute to open source. We chat with Katie Delfin, one of the four software engineers who worked on GitHub's new "GitHub Sponsors" tool, which hopes to solve some of these issues.

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• Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor)
• cURL
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• Rails
• Pluralsight/Code School
• Dreamweaver
• Git
• ColdFusion
• Object-oriented programming
• Java
• GitHub Sponsors
• GitHub
• Open source

Katie Delfin

Katie Delfin is a senior software engineer at GitHub, and one of the four engineers who worked on the company's new funding tool, GitHub Sponsors.