Passionate code monkey, gamer, bouldering apprentice and creator and maintainer of OctoPrint (https://octoprint.org). Gina has always been in love with code, loves tinkering and helping others. She has written Open Source Software for most of her adult life and has been in the lucky position to do it full time and 100% crowd funded by the community of her project OctoPrint for close to a decade now. Gina has a heavy bag in her office and uses it to combat the downsides of being a full time Open Source Developer.
Gina Häußge has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 251: Gina Häußge of OctoPrint on Crowd-funding OSS
October 11th, 2024 | 33 mins 43 secs
Gina shares her journey to working full-time on OctoPrint through crowdfunding, addressing burnout, user demands, and the importance of API stability for plugin developers.