{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pybee/paying-the-piper/issues/54","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pybee/paying-the-piper/issues/54/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pybee/paying-the-piper/issues/54/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pybee/paying-the-piper/issues/54/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pybee/paying-the-piper/issues/54","id":113939363,"number":54,"title":"Get companies to sit down with OSS developers and hear them out","user":{"login":"nayafia","id":1840802,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1840802?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia","html_url":"https://github.com/nayafia","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-10-28T22:28:45Z","updated_at":"2015-10-29T17:05:11Z","closed_at":null,"body":"From another underfunded industry, journalism:\r\n\r\n> I would love to see more people that benefit from the existence of journalism put their money where their mouth is. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Twitter, Yahoo! and the many investors behind those organisations should all pool money with Google into an independent fund for journalism innovations that can be distributed globally.\r\n\r\nBasically, Google created a £150m fund in Europe to support journalism (granted, it was a bit of a mea culpa), and the author of [this article](http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2015/oct/23/silicon-valley-google-apple-facebook-journalism-fund) proposes Silicon Valley companies do the same.\r\n\r\nHas anybody gotten Silicon Valley software companies to sit down at the table with OSS developers to talk about funding issues? I'm sure this has happened in many one-off conversations but what about framing it as a bigger conversation?\r\n\r\nI'm just thinking about how media is widely accepted to be an underfunded industry, even if we don't know how to fix it, but I don't think OSS has yet achieved that same sort of visibility, which means nobody is motivated to address it.\r\n\r\nIf I organized something like this in SF Bay Area, would anybody want to come? Nominate others? Have ideas for agenda items that must be discussed?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pybee/paying-the-piper/issues/comments/152250448","html_url":"https://github.com/pybee/paying-the-piper/issues/54#issuecomment-152250448","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pybee/paying-the-piper/issues/54","id":152250448,"user":{"login":"nayafia","id":1840802,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1840802?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia","html_url":"https://github.com/nayafia","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nayafia/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-29T17:05:11Z","updated_at":"2015-10-29T17:05:11Z","body":"I was thinking a roundtable of maybe 12 people total - 6 companies (think Heroku, Stripe, Twilio, AWS, GitHub, etc), 6 devs (core devs from big projects as well as independent devs leading smallish projects), doing a half day over lunch or dinner. We could publish notes from the conversation so everyone sees what was discussed."}}