How working for free for fun brought me fame and fortune — or at least some of each — in the end (#19)

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…GuestsTim te Beekhttps://twitter.com/TimteBeek https://docs.openrewrite.orghttps://www.moderne.ioMaarten Muldershttps://twitter.com/mthmulders Lukas Ederhttps://twitter.com/lukasederhttps://www.jooq.org/Podcast hostFrank Delporte https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte Content00’00 Intro00’31 Introduction of the guests02’28 What projects are the guests working on?https://maven.apache.org/Maven Central Search: https://github.com/mthmulders/mcs https://foojay.io/today/introduction-to-maven-toolchains/https://docs.openrewrite.orghttps://www.moderne.iohttps://www.jooq.org/https://foojay.io/today/5-great-reasons-to-use-jooq/ 06’34 How Tim got a job at Moderne08’23 The connection between OpenRewrite and Moderne09’23 How jOOQ became a companyhttps://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-cathedral/0596001088/https://scala-slick.org/https://foojay.io/today/vaadin-and-jooq-match-made-in-heaven/14’44 Building a product is more valuable compared to offering supporthttps://entreprenerd.lowagie.com/index.html21’22 About open-source licenses23’48 Why and how Info Support allows Maarten to work on open-source within working hours27’47 What you can learn from an open-source project28’54 Does every developer have to do be an open-source contributor?32’13 Becoming rich thanks to open-source? Projects versus Productshttps://s.apache.org/for-the-grabs_maven48’33 About the Fosdem talk about OpenRewritehttps://foojay.io/today/foojay-io-at-fosdem-2023-trip-report/https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/migrations/ 48’53 Benevolent dictator for life and how to make money from a programming languagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_lifehttps://business.jooq.org/51’22 Outro