<div dir="ltr">Thanks for sending this out, Camille!<div><br></div><div>Andy, I, and others have been talking a lot about issues related to this. We believe that humans have a deep need for recognition, but ultimately good feelings aren't enough, and real recognition must also involve actually valuing the work in the sense of $$$$. </div><div><br></div><div>As David Edgerton and others have pointed out, Maintainers are sometimes quite well paid, and if we can look back into the quickly retreating past when there were strong unions in the USA, Maintainers were frequently union leaders. </div><div><br></div><div>But we are also aware and interested in the many cases where Maintainers aren't well rewarded today. Andy and I are really inspired by Stephanie Hoopes and <a href="https://www.unitedwayalice.org/">her United Way project called ALICE, which stands for Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed and focuses on the working poor</a>. In some work we did with Stephanie, we saw that there was a large overlap between ALICE households and what we might call Maintainer occupations. </div><div><br></div><div>A final thought: we should also pay attention to the large amount of human effort, like open source maintainer work, that falls largely outside of traditional markets, <a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/social-reproduction-theory-ferguson/">including the kind of domestic labor examined in the literature on social reproduction</a>. This includes a lot of care work obviously. And on that front, I've been inspired not only by Nancy Fraser's recent writings on care but also by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Forced-Care-Coercion-Caregiving-America/dp/0674064151">Evelyn Nakano Glenn's book, Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America</a>, which does a great job especially with the gendered and racialized nature of the topic. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again for the post and for continuing to take interest in maintenance/Maintainers. </div><div><br></div><div>Lee</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 8:50 PM Camille E. Acey <<a href="mailto:connect@camilleacey.com">connect@camilleacey.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><a href="https://blog.tidelift.com/1m-to-pay-open-source-maintainers-on-tidelift" target="_blank">https://blog.tidelift.com/1m-to-pay-open-source-maintainers-on-tidelift</a><div><br></div><div><font face="sans-serif">"</font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(75,81,104);font-family:Aileron,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px">How can we ensure that the open source software we rely on continues to get even more awesome and more dependable?</span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(75,81,104);font-family:Aileron,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent">At Tidelift, we believe the solution is hiding in plain sight: pay the maintainers."</span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="m_-5425516538755294677composer_signature"><div><font face="serif">Camille E. Acey</font></div><div><font face="serif"><br></font></div><font face="serif"><font dir="auto">"</font><span style="font-size:16px" dir="auto">Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - Audre Lorde</span></font></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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