Foojay Podcast #19: How Working For Free For Fun Brought Me Fame and Fortune – Or At Least Some Of Each – In The End
- April 17, 2023
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Many developers spend a lot of their time on side projects. It’s an opportunity to learn new techniques and get involved in communities.
But sometimes it can also lead to a new job.
Or even starting a business based on such a project.
Today we are talking to people who achieved such a transition and became famous and rich, or at least some of each…
Guests
- Tim te Beek
- Maarten Mulders
- Lukas Eder
Podcast host
Content
- 00’00 Intro
- 00’31 Introduction of the guests
- 02’28 What projects are the guests working on?
- 06’34 How Tim got a job at Moderne
- 08’23 The connection between OpenRewrite and Moderne
- 09’23 How jOOQ became a company
- 14’44 Building a product is more valuable compared to offering support
- 21’22 About open-source licenses
- 23’48 Why and how Info Support allows Maarten to work on open-source within working hours
- 27’47 What you can learn from an open-source project
- 28’54 Does every developer have to do be an open-source contributor?
- 32’13 Becoming rich thanks to open-source? Projects versus Products…
- 48’33 About the Fosdem talk about OpenRewrite
- 48’53 Benevolent dictator for life and how to make money from a programming language
- 51’22 Outro
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Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte) is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.
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Passionate architect, senior developer and trainer at Info Support. Also Java Champion. I'm eager about "building the right thing" and "building the thing right".
Staff software engineer at Moderne.io, where I work on OpenRewrite.
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