Chad Whitacre
@chadwhitacre.com
Head of Open Source, @sentry.io ❧ On a quest to unlock the gift of Open Source, follow along and join in at openpath.quest. 💃
October 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We had a psychology researcher write a 37-page report on burnout in Open Source. Blog post soon, join our Slack to read the report now.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
We had a psychology researcher write a 37-page report on burnout in Open Source. Blog post soon, join our Slack to read the report now.
join.slack.com/t/opensource...
join.slack.com/t/opensource...
Let's gooooooooo! 🇮🇳 💃 🙌
September 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Let's gooooooooo! 🇮🇳 💃 🙌
New tagline on the @opensourcepledge.com homepage. “Together, we pay the maintainers.” Join the club! 😁💃
September 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New tagline on the @opensourcepledge.com homepage. “Together, we pay the maintainers.” Join the club! 😁💃
Maintainers can't eat code. That's why companies SHOULD (per RFC 2119) join @opensourcepledge.com and #paythemaintainers and not just contribute upstream (which they SHOULD also keep doing!).
August 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Maintainers can't eat code. That's why companies SHOULD (per RFC 2119) join @opensourcepledge.com and #paythemaintainers and not just contribute upstream (which they SHOULD also keep doing!).
My life is so weird.
August 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My life is so weird.
№ 4: GENTLEMAN CODER. Financially independent, retired early. Finds purpose in the community.
August 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
№ 4: GENTLEMAN CODER. Financially independent, retired early. Finds purpose in the community.
№ 3: STARVING ARTIST. Can't not build the commons, from the razor's edge of brilliance and burnout.
August 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
№ 3: STARVING ARTIST. Can't not build the commons, from the razor's edge of brilliance and burnout.
№ 2: STUDENT. Intimidated and inspired, equally. Friends just took VC for their open core company.
August 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
№ 2: STUDENT. Intimidated and inspired, equally. Friends just took VC for their open core company.
Short Taxonomy of Open Source Developers. 🧵
№ 1: EMPLOYEE. Writes most of civilization's Open Source software. Made peace with the trade-offs.
№ 1: EMPLOYEE. Writes most of civilization's Open Source software. Made peace with the trade-offs.
August 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Short Taxonomy of Open Source Developers. 🧵
№ 1: EMPLOYEE. Writes most of civilization's Open Source software. Made peace with the trade-offs.
№ 1: EMPLOYEE. Writes most of civilization's Open Source software. Made peace with the trade-offs.
“It wasn’t even moral indignation; it was a sense of confusion: why aren’t we paying someone to help them work full time on this? Isn’t that just an obviously reasonable thing to do?”
@jmduke.com re: @opensourcepledge.com
Full story: opensourcepledge.com/blog/story-o...
@jmduke.com re: @opensourcepledge.com
Full story: opensourcepledge.com/blog/story-o...
August 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“It wasn’t even moral indignation; it was a sense of confusion: why aren’t we paying someone to help them work full time on this? Isn’t that just an obviously reasonable thing to do?”
@jmduke.com re: @opensourcepledge.com
Full story: opensourcepledge.com/blog/story-o...
@jmduke.com re: @opensourcepledge.com
Full story: opensourcepledge.com/blog/story-o...
This kind of bouldering? 😊
July 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This kind of bouldering? 😊
Love seeing the @opensourcepledge.com badge in the footer on @posit.co. ☺️ Why is it not on your company's website? 🤔
July 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Love seeing the @opensourcepledge.com badge in the footer on @posit.co. ☺️ Why is it not on your company's website? 🤔
For Open Path № 2, I talked to @simonwillison.net, @nedbat.com, and five other maintainers to understand the Open Source burnout crisis from their point of view. The dream? Financial support w/o hoops!
Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...
Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...
June 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
For Open Path № 2, I talked to @simonwillison.net, @nedbat.com, and five other maintainers to understand the Open Source burnout crisis from their point of view. The dream? Financial support w/o hoops!
Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...
Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...
“I didn’t expect to be moved by videos about open source info, but I was.” Awwwww, Joe. 🫶 🥹
Episode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...
Episode 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Dw...
Episode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...
Episode 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Dw...
June 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“I didn’t expect to be moved by videos about open source info, but I was.” Awwwww, Joe. 🫶 🥹
Episode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...
Episode 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Dw...
Episode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...
Episode 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Dw...
Best part of these UN meetings so far was when Sigmund Freund was introduced as …
June 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Best part of these UN meetings so far was when Sigmund Freund was introduced as …
You know, just UN'ing ...
June 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
You know, just UN'ing ...
Rainy week in NYC. I'm here for UN Open Source week, also planning to pitch @opensourcepledge.com at a startup pitch event on Wednesday. We'll see what other shenanigans emerge. 😁 💃
June 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Rainy week in NYC. I'm here for UN Open Source week, also planning to pitch @opensourcepledge.com at a startup pitch event on Wednesday. We'll see what other shenanigans emerge. 😁 💃
Great to see this from zerodha.com! 👏 I look forward to strengthening our relationship at the fossunited.org conference in Bangalore in September. 👍
May 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Great to see this from zerodha.com! 👏 I look forward to strengthening our relationship at the fossunited.org conference in Bangalore in September. 👍
Work on Ep. 2 proceeding apace, drive filling up quickly. openpath.quest
May 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Work on Ep. 2 proceeding apace, drive filling up quickly. openpath.quest
Putting some pieces together for Ep. 2 of Open Path, aiming for mid-June(?). openpath.quest
May 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Putting some pieces together for Ep. 2 of Open Path, aiming for mid-June(?). openpath.quest
First through-stone, big milestone.
May 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
First through-stone, big milestone.