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Uses a job‑interview format to probe how open geospatial work turns into pay, naming concrete projects and funding models: blockchain experiments (FOAM) with emphasis on trustless decentralize incentives, OpenStreetMap US hiring a paid executive director, and corporate funding tensions. Highlights a maintainer‑support model via Tidelift committing $1M and argues for measurable value capture across startups, VC pressures, and corporate open‑sourcing. Offers specific career prep tips and urges building bridges between technologists and business leaders around the cash economy of open geo.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 3:35Job interview format
- 8:06Professional strengths and blockchain
- 12:22Greatest professional achievement
- 15:59Tension with companies in open geo
- 19:12Conflict in open source cash economy
- 22:28Business models like Tidelift
- 24:58Open geo’s role in society
- 27:50Future in five years
- 31:00Asking your own questions
- 34:18Closing thoughts on trust and decentralization
- 42:02Q&A
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