Open Source Heroes - A Poem of Appreciation.

Working with open source for a long time is tremendous work, often unappreciated.

I don't want to be a part of it. I wish a different world, but I want to follow a simple rule in my life, and

Having that in mind, let's have some fun, take a moment, and appreciate people who do great, and you get value from it.

I want to invite you to join me in this initiative of sharing a word of appreciation for one of the OSS heroes you know!

A Poem of a Great Rebirth

Hi, they call me Tim Riley,

I'm a ruby geek leaving in Australia.

Once I found a project named Hanami

And it was for Ruby what for food there is Umami.

Hanami 2 like Umami taste

However great, this project looked a bit dead,

'cause there was no one who could keep it led.

I said, screw it! I don't like the Rails way,

but there is nothing I could say,

so let me just take Hanami over,

and wrap it into a completely new cover.

But there was more needed than just adding a patch,

so I had rewritten it all (not)entirely from scratch.

One PR of many during Hanami update

This is the spirit of the Open Source Hero,

You just grind, starting sometimes from a complete zero,

if you fail on the road,

you better start over,

if get lost in the forest of code,

find your way like a rover

have no time? Get rid of sleep and switch

into extreme open-source mode.

Now let me give Hanami a lovely final kiss,

to add some views and do the 2.1 release.

A poem was written by Seb Wilgosz (no AI involved, lol!).

The Open Source Hero

Thanks!

• Tim Riley, for the inspiration article
• The whole Open Source community for all the great work you do!

I challenge you!

If you like the idea I present here, share this, mentioning a person or few from the open source world, that you're especially grateful for the work they do!

Cheers and see you next time!