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Ask HN: Got zoombombed in open-source contributor meeting, how to deal with it

2 pointsby okaydeveloperalmost 4 years ago
I am a contributor to Open-Source software(Jina - an AI search framework) and I am annoyed with how some people make fun of the sheer hard work of open-source developers.<p>For the last 1 yr, we had made our contributors team meetings public(everyone could listen and participate during the meeting). And this is what happened in our last meeting - While we were sharing news about upcoming Jina 2.0 release in the zoom meeting, some loud racist music starts playing automatically and someone starts drawing a d<i>ck on the screen.<p>It was demotivating to say the least. Building open-source project is challenging at multiple fronts other than the core technical challenges<p>- Understand what needs to be built<p>- Improve that continuously<p>- Help people understand the project<p>- Educate people about the domain<p>- Reach out people who might benefit from your project<p>- Collaborate with other contributors<p>- Deal with issues&#x2F;PRs<p>- Deal with outdated versions&#x2F;docs<p>- Deal with different opinions<p>- Sometimes deal with jerks like the ones who zoombombed us<p>The list is long! Open-source is hard! Open-source exists because of some good people out there like you&#x2F;me who care about the open-source so deeply to invest their time and energy for a little good for everyone else. It exists because of communities like Hackernews where we can find the support and the motivation.<p>I wanted to vent out my negative experiences and wanted to say a big *Thank you* to you all open-source people, thanks to many(1.6k) contributors who made it possible for us to release [Jina 2.0](https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jina-ai&#x2F;jina&#x2F;) .<p>I&#x27;d want to know your opinion, how do you deal with such unexpected events and how do you keep yourself motivated as an open-source developer?</i>

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paktek123almost 4 years ago
I&#x27;m very sorry for what happened, hopefully it does not happen again. From your response I gathered a few things, that contributing to open source seems to be taking a toll on. You may want to look at monitizing (github sponsor) or taking a break (or simply slowing down) from open source.<p>The actions of &quot;jerks&quot; are a self reflection of them. They are trying to get attention, play racist music, draw immature content, get a laugh out of this (which will get boring after x times) . You can probably guess how they are as people in real life, none of the above are positive triats to have. Don&#x27;t let these jerks get to you rather, use this to strengthen yourself that you are doing something much more constructive and positive with your time.
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