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[Answered - it's rare but it exists] Is opensource advocacy a job? (self.opensource)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by onlinepersona to c/opensource
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And how could one get paid to do so?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe organizations like the FSF, FSFE and SF Conservancy employ basically lobbyists to help represent open-source.

And organizations like Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, openSUSE, The Document Foundation, Wikimedia etc. will have basically open-source community managers. So, where you could potentially help to steer an open-source community, as far as that's possible.

But yeah, these positions are extremely rare. Like, we're talking a few dozens on the whole planet.
People in these positions usually have made a name for themselves in other ways and have experience in similar jobs...

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 10 months ago

That's what I feared. Opensource needs a lot more marketing (and ads).