{"id":93003,"date":"2019-07-02T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-to-support-open-source-software-and-stay-sane"},"modified":"2019-07-02T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:45:10","slug":"how-to-support-open-source-software-and-stay-sane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-to-support-open-source-software-and-stay-sane","title":{"rendered":"How to support open-source software and stay sane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-support-open-source-software-and-stay-sane2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a familiar problem: open-source software is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably. Support work is often handled ad hoc by overworked graduate students and postdocs, and can lead to burnout. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of the difference between having insurance and having a GoFundMe when their grandma goes to the hospital,\u201d says Anne Carpenter, a computational biologist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose lab developed the image-analysis tool CellProfiler. \u201cIt\u2019s just not a nice way to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Releasing lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a familiar problem: open-source software is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably. Support work is often handled ad hoc by overworked graduate students and postdocs, and can lead to burnout. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of the difference between having insurance and having a GoFundMe when their grandma goes to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}