reconnect with Nadia Eghbal

[chadwhitacre]

Reticketed from #405.

Nadia and I did a call together a little over a year ago. With "How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot," it seems like it might be a good time to reconnect. :-)

@nayafia Up for another Hangout to catch up? :)

[chadwhitacre]

(I've also sent a private email.)

[chadwhitacre]

Oops! @collaborativefund.com bounced. ;-)

To: [gmail]
Subject: reconnect re: funding open-source?

Greetings! Chad here from Gratipay. We spoke a little over a year ago (here's the video ;). I just read "How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot"—looks like you haven't stopped thinking about alternative structures for funding the most valuable things on the Internet! :-)

Over here we've been thinking a lot about capital as well, particularly how it might fit into the "take-what-you-want" model that we're pioneering at Gratipay.

Would you be up for another Hangout to catch up? :)

[techtonik]

@whit537 can we make a query to find the most funded open source projects (in terms of people) before Gratipocalype to augment @nayafia spreadsheet? If you can send me the dump, I can do this.

[nayafia]

@whit537 Hey there! Yes, happy to catch up. As you can see, I never stopped thinking about our convo last year. :) How's next Wed 1/27 or Thurs 1/28, 4p PT?

@techtonik that would be very welcomed on the spreadsheet, thanks!

[chadwhitacre]

@nayafia Yay! :D Let's go for Thursday 1/28 at 4 pm your time. I'll email you a join link then. Looking forward to it! :-)

@techtonik I'm not ready to send you a production data dump. What are the metrics you want to run?

P.S. For the viewers at home, here's the spreadsheet.

[chadwhitacre]

Follow-ups from @nayafia:

"Open source infrastructure: the Q&A"

"Why can’t we just charge for open source infrastructure?"

[techtonik]

@whit537 in pseudo SQL - select project.name, count(person.id) as people from (projects vs person on person.donated_to) where person.donated > 0 sort on people limit 100

[nayafia]

great, speak then!

p.s. just moved to http://fundingoss.com for future project additions!

[techtonik]

@whit537 I may be able to build the exact query this weekend. Just need to find out the date with correct schema.

[techtonik]

Added Gratipay to http://fundingoss.com/69/ (spreadsheet replacement)

[chadwhitacre]

!m @techtonik

Still need to get you that query ...

[techtonik]

@whit537 yes, I couldn't get around to it too..

[chadwhitacre]

@techtonik Okay, ball is in your court to get me the query you want to run.

[techtonik]

Yep. Do you use any good DB inspection tools to start with? It might be faster than digging SQL dump once I get it.

[chadwhitacre]

@techtonik I generally just use psql.

[chadwhitacre]

@nayafia We still on for a call at 4pm (your time) today?

[nayafia]

yep!

[chadwhitacre]

Awesome! I'll email you a link to join the Hangout when the time comes, and I'll post a view link here. Talk soon! :-)

[chadwhitacre]

View link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXPDtPhnhus.

[chadwhitacre]

Okay! Good call! Thank you, @nayafia! Please do consider Gratipay a gift for your quest, and if you ever want to check in on us or ping us about anything, feel free to drop in on the Radar. In the mean time, keep up the great work! :-)

[nayafia]

woot! so fun! hope to chat again soon. likewise keep up the good fight 👊