Purpose

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? ...