Totally into this! I've been wanting to start open-source Fridays to coordinate open-source contributions from multiple companies, but haven't had the staff to make it realistic yet. I have held the org github.com/opensourcefridays which may be redundant but I can offer it for non-githubbers if that helps!
I've always felt '20% time' is like 'unlimited vacation', there should be a mandatory minimum to make it truly effective.
I think the BEIPA is a great idea and could be extended with a company rating system to help devs make job decisions. It would also help shame companies into doing the right thing. There are many Trolls out there.
-Patron - active financial sponsor of oss and allows work and off hours contributions
-Benefactor - allows work time and off hours contributions
Yeah. I was looking about a year ago and it appears that this project was operational then. Pretty sure I never came across it. Maybe this initiative will make it more discoverable...
Edit - And it creates a bit of a conundrum for a project like the one you cite, too (was just looking at your link). You want to support new developers, but you end up with a relatively long list of supposedly easy to attempt issues that no one takes.
> I think this is meant to read "last Friday of the month", not "every fourth Friday", seeing as this is being promoted today.
I don't think it's necessary for them to announce a change in their practice on a specific day. They're moving from every 4th Friday to every Friday for open source.
In the part you quote is describing a practice that was historically in place at GitHub, not the goals of this program. The new program is about contributing to open source once a week:
> contribute a few hours contributing to open source every Friday
It looks like there are 4 months this year with 5 Fridays in the month. I don't think its pedantic. That messaging could confuse the hell out of somebody.
I've always felt '20% time' is like 'unlimited vacation', there should be a mandatory minimum to make it truly effective.