By the way, if you are wondering why I have subtle and controversial opinions on why most approaches to FOSS funding end up being duds (they ignore or try to avoid realities) and never give even a talk about it: try submitting a talk about money at a FOSS conference. I'll wait.

I can assure you the talk will not get accepted. I wrote my first document on why many of the early approaches in the Ruby community failed in 2014, at eurucamp. I managed to get a talk in based on those in 2017, when I was invited at a conference on _any_ subject.

The organiser _still_ asked if I really want to talk about that subject (to their credit, I didn't have to fight and they loved the talk). The talk has 100 views on youtube (and honestly, is very rough and has a sucky title).

This experience has vastly changed my view on why we don't get money: because we still didn't normalise talking about money. And this isn't any individuals problem: I can totally emphasise with people being in pain. But not talking about money also means: no support to turn to.

There's 100000 chat channels around the finer details of every programming language, there's almost no channel to turn to and say: "my project suddenly has 100000 users, what now? who made it worked and got their livelihood out of that?".

1/3 of all FOSS developers maintain their software out of guilt. And we have built an environment that is just okay with that and they get no contact with peers.

Remember when you accept the next "scaling docker" talk.