On 18/03/20 3:05 pm, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> [2020-03-18 10:26]: >>> As a former Outreachy intern myself (2015) I can tell you that it the >>> stipend has helped me to invest time to find my way around Debian, time >>> during which otherwise I would have had to earn a living elsewhere and >>> would never have gotten involved further with Debian. >> With all due respect, but I find this a bit pretentious. The vast >> majority of people who are getting involved with open source are >> initially not being paid for that. > That reminds me of a remark I made recently when talking about > Outreachy in the context of Debian. First, I should say that I agree > with Ulrike that some people won't be able to spend time learning > about FOSS if they are not paid through a stipend. Just think of > people in Asia or Africa who don't have the luxury of "spare time" we > in the west often have. In India, non-male free software contributors are kind of very low. Wherever you are, the gender ratio is horribly screwed in Free Software, I do not think it is has to do anything with having luxury of "spare time" or not.
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