The graying open source community needs fresh blood :opensource: 💉 🩸
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/15/opinion_open_source_attract_devs/
We agree with the main thesis of the article. And that’s one of the reasons why the #LabPlot team strongly supports the idea of mentorship of students and actively participates in such programs as the Season of KDE (SoK) or Google Summer of Code.
#OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #Mentorship #KDESoK #GSoC #Development #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #Leadership #Community #KDE
Companies aren’t donating development time to open source like they used to, and nobody has the free time (see: money) to give themselves.