Vlad-Stefan Harbuz
I work on software and philosophy that contributes to the public good. My current focus is to find ways to get more money to Open Source maintainers in order to make our Open Source ecosystem healthier and more sustainable.
I'm a maintainer of the Open Source Pledge, which is creating a new social norm of companies paying Open Source maintainers they depend on. I'm also a core contributor to thanks.dev, which enables companies to scan their codebases to find and directly pay the Open Source maintainers they depend on. I co-maintain the Hare programming language and previously founded data science/visualisation company Saffron and gaming hardware company Submodule.
Next to my work in software, I am also a PhD researcher in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where I research why social conventions make us put up with exploitation, and how to identify ethical ways of working together.
I think that being kind is important, and I love cats and birds. I write on vlad.website.
Events
| Title | Day | Room | Track | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funding Open Source projects through dependency analysis |
Sunday | K.3.601 | Funding the FOSS Ecosystem | 11:10 | 11:40 |