grumbling about funding
One thing that will forever continue frustrating me, is how there are certain very institutional organizations behind eg. FOSS projects that are comparatively swimming in money, indiscriminately spend it like they're a startup with cash to burn, and then still manage to run out of it
All the while grassroots community endeavours are desperate for *any* funding at all, and could have achieved more with less than a tenth or a hundredth of the budget, but got absolutely nothing in the process
This is not any one specific organization I'm thinking of, it is happening all over the place
re: grumbling about funding
Also can't help but notice how these organization are virtually never hiring the marginalized folks in their own community who are desperately trying to get by financially, and instead it's almost always random white tech startup dudes with little prior affiliation
grumbling about funding
in case anyone wants examples, there was a specific compare-and-contrast between two projects in the talk described in this article a few years back:
https://lwn.net/Articles/783169/
but of course that just scratches the surface
re: grumbling about funding
Like, if you're "competing on the open market" for developers to hire while your community is desperately trying to collect $30 a month to keep an important service running, you are doing something extremely wrong as a project, and that is just one example