Erik @dreirik Albers was invited by the Public Interest Podcast from Protoype Fund to talk about // foss.events on the topic of „Open Source without money“. The Prototype Fund is in its own words „the first low-threshold funding program for independent developers in Germany who develop innovative Free and Open Source Software from society and for society.“

It was a big pleasure and honor for us to be invited and to talk about // foss.events, our main ideas and motivations regarding // foss.events as well as the milestones still in front of us.

We hope you enjoy listenening, here is the blurb:

foss.events is an event calendar for – surprise, surprise – FOSS events. The project has been run and developed for years without any money, by Erik Albers, among others, whom we talk to in this episode.

We talk to Erik about project development in his spare time, motivations and hurdles in a small team, and why it can sometimes even be good for a project when there is no money involved.