Are devs contributing to OSS happier?
September 24, 2010
software development,
Motivation,
Get Better,
apprenticeship patterns,
Free Software,
Self Direction,
Mastery,
Freetime,
Hacking,
Purpose
Are devs contributing to OSS happier? # When talking to fellow developers or meeting with students it happens from time to time that I get the question of why on earth I spent my freetime working on an open source project? Why do I spend weekends at developers’ conferences like FOSDEM? Why do spent afternoons organising meetups? Why is it that I am reviewing and writing code after work for free? ...