Sustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company (Changelog Interviews #87)

Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Chad Whitacre about sustaining open source through Gittip, building an open company and more.

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Featuring:

• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
• Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• We’re joined by Chad Whitacre of gittip.com
• gittip.com allows you to send recurring gifts to people you want to support
• Chad is running gittip.com as an open company
• Pledgie is a way to raise funds online
• The MacArthur Genius Grant is a program that supports awesome people doing awesome things
• Balanced Payments is the payment provider behind gittip
• Stripe is another payment provider
• Watsi is crowd funding for changing the world for good
• Balanced has open sourced their dashboard
• A BDFL is a Benevolent Dictator for Life
• The Lean Startup is a book by Eric Ries
• Heroku gives on gittip.
• MaxCDN gives on gittip.
• Reddit is an open source project and is on github
• Share projects and links with us on our subreddit
• You can sign up for the gittip newsletter
• Medium is a new writing platform
• Kenneth loves this tweet from Chad on Twitter

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