The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

A new path to full-time open source (Interview)

Mar 29, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

How to Make It to Full Time Open Source Maintainer

2min

How to Survive on Open Source

2min

How I Succeeded at Open Source

2min

How to Use YouTube DL to Download Videos

3min

How I Left Cloudflare and Joined Google to Work on the Go Standard Library

3min

How to Be a Successful Open Source Maintainer

2min

The Negative Effects of Google's Go Team

5min

How to Establish a Relationship With a High Bandwidth Channel

1min

10.

The Gold Tier of the Contract

4min

11.

The Importance of Open Source Maintainers

2min

12.

How to Be a Good Communicator

2min

13.

How to Be an Expert in Cryptography

2min

14.

The Benefits of Call-on-Demand Consulting

2min

15.

How to Scale Your Software Consulting

2min

16.

How to Scale a Solo Business

3min

17.

How to Succeed as a Maintainer of Critical Infrastructure

3min

18.

Sentry's Session Replay Is a Video Like Experience

4min

19.

How to Be a Successful Open Source Developer

3min

20.

The Hardest Part of Selling Open Source

3min

21.

How to Be a Successful GitHub Sponsor

2min

22.

How to Be an Expert in Cryptography

3min

23.

How Felipe O'Rio Can Help You Succeed at Open Source

2min

24.

How to Make Money From Open Source

2min

25.

How to Be a Successful Plus Plus Member

2min

After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone exactly how he’s making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source.

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