freedom is the way

It's definitely amazing, if you have the skills, but can you make a living from it, or partially?

your work is appreciated, you go non-stop

I can't really comment from experience, as I made my first ever open source pull requests only last night 😃, but I will make and practical observation: Open source documentation is often extremely good. I guess it's because the contributors want to be understood and to welcome more people to con...

are you on a grant program? the only inconvenience I see is that even if you qualify for a grant, the financial security is quite low compared to a traditional software engineering position, since grants always expire and the software you work on is free.