**Gary "grim" Kramlich** @grimmy@mastodon.social · Oct 22, 2025, 16:48

**Gary "grim" Kramlich** @grimmy@mastodon.social · Oct 22, 2025, 16:48

Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy@mastodon.social

I was just talking to some friends about some stuff going on with the @pidgin community and spat this out:

> Welcome to maintaining a large open source project.. you get all the things except contributions, respect, and monetary donations.

Do you agree with this? Have other other thoughts?

**customdesigned** @customdesigned@qoto.org · 2025-10-22T17:43:34Z

customdesigned @customdesigned@qoto.org

@grimmy @pidgin With a smaller project (pymilter), no money for sure. But respect and contributions, yes. And that's what I expected.