How to support
- Would love to guide people interested in open source, and help them decide whether to make their project open source.
- How to build an open source business
- How to build and maintain a large global community
- How to launch on Reddit
- I am looking to judge open-source hackathons as well, as a prerequisite for O1 visa for the US.
A small brief about your project
Open-source native PC gaming on Android - sign in to Steam/Epic/GOG, download your games to your device, and start playing with full cloud save support. In a year reached a million users across every country except North Korea, ~40k member Discord, ~9k GitHub stars. All from a single Reddit post, before launching on the Play Store.
We do JIT translation of ARM64 -> x86 instructions, along with Linux -> Windows, while integrating with the device's graphics drivers and game stores.
One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self
Create contribution guidelines early, be strict, and don't bring on contributors who are pushy and make you stressed.
Why do you do it? Why do you bother maintaining a FOSS project?
GameNative is FOSS, but I'm also planning to make it into an open-source business like GitLab.
If your repo had a theme song, what would it be?
https://youtu.be/JArHaJFB59s?is=yxUwMgZkv2EF6s07
Which file in your project would you most like to set on fire?
XServerScreen.kt
What's your open-source villain origin story?
Dealing with people demanding that I review their PRs immediately, and also be made maintainers.
If you had to use one emoji to convey what it is like to be a FOSS maintainer, what would it be?
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