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…

Guests
• Tim te Beek• twitter.com/TimteBeek
• docs.openrewrite.org
• moderne.io

• Maarten Mulders• twitter.com/mthmulders

• Lukas Eder• twitter.com/lukaseder
• jooq.org

Podcast host
• Frank Delporte • twitter.com/FrankDelporte
• foojay.social/@frankdelporte

Content
• 00’00 Intro
• 00’31 Introduction of the guests
• 02’28 What projects are the guests working on?• maven.apache.org
• Maven Central Search: github.com/mthmulders/mcs
• foojay.io/today/introduction-to-maven-toolchains
• docs.openrewrite.org
• moderne.io
• jooq.org
• foojay.io/today/5-great-reasons-to-use-jooq

• 06’34 How Tim got a job at Moderne
• 08’23 The connection between OpenRewrite and Moderne
• 09’23 How jOOQ became a company• oreilly.com/library/view/the-cathedral/0596001…
• scala-slick.org
• foojay.io/today/vaadin-and-jooq-match-made-in-…

• 14’44 Building a product is more valuable compared to offering support• entreprenerd.lowagie.com/index.html

• 21’22 About open-source licenses
• 23’48 Why and how Info Support allows Maarten to work on open-source within working hours
• 27’47 What you can learn from an open-source project
• 28’54 Does every developer have to do be an open-source contributor?
• 32’13 Becoming rich thanks to open-source? Projects versus Products• s.apache.org/for-the-grabs_maven

• 48’33 About the Fosdem talk about OpenRewrite• foojay.io/today/foojay-io-at-fosdem-2023-trip-…
• fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/migrations

• 48’53 Benevolent dictator for life and how to make money from a programming language• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_…
• business.jooq.org

• 51’22 Outro