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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
October 21 & October 25 | Co-Located Events, Tutorials, & Workshops
October 22-24 | Conference
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Monday, October 22 • 15:05 - 15:45
How to Pay Your Contributors and Get Away with It - Erlend Sogge Heggen, Discourse

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Mixing money and open source is notoriously difficult. For more than 2 years we've been experimenting with paying our most active contributors to continue to do open source work on Discourse, and it is working exceedingly well.

https://blog.discourse.org/2017/02/the-discourse-encouragement-fund/
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Erlend Sogge Heggen

Community Advocate, Discourse
Studied game design at Vancouver Film School. Worked for a year at WeWantToKnow (DragonBox app). Worked for 3 years at Discourse. Been deeply involved with open source for 15 years, starting with Warcraft 3 mods. I was the primary all-things manager and co-founder of the open source... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 15:05 - 15:45 BST
Cromdale Hall A, Level -2
  Open Collaboration Conference

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