Changelog Interviews

Sustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company

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Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Chad Whitacre about sustaining open source through Gittip, building an open company and more.

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Featuring:

  • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
  • Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
  • Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • We’re joined by Chad Whitacre of gittip.com
  • gittip.com allows you to send recurring gifts to people you want to support
  • Chad is running gittip.com as an open company
  • Pledgie is a way to raise funds online
  • The MacArthur Genius Grant is a program that supports awesome people doing awesome things
  • Balanced Payments is the payment provider behind gittip
  • Stripe is another payment provider
  • Watsi is crowd funding for changing the world for good
  • Balanced has open sourced their dashboard
  • A BDFL is a Benevolent Dictator for Life
  • The Lean Startup is a book by Eric Ries
  • Heroku gives on gittip.
  • MaxCDN gives on gittip.
  • Reddit is an open source project and is on github
  • Share projects and links with us on our subreddit
  • You can sign up for the gittip newsletter
  • Medium is a new writing platform
  • Kenneth loves this tweet from Chad on Twitter

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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