Volunteers are currently working to try and decode the Frans Pop Debian Day suicide. Here at the Fellowship we thought it would be helpful to look at Pop’s case in the context of all the other suicides and accidental deaths across the entire open source ecosystem.
The Open Source mafia has been putting far too much pressure on volunteers in recent years. We decided to look at the cases of those who didn’t survive.
We feel these cases demonstrate there are issues in the open source challenge to work/life balance and the systematic pushing of volunteers to work for free.
If you know any other cases or if you have more evidence about the cases listed already, please write to supporter@fsfellowship.news.
Frans Pop, Debian “Community”, 2010 (suicide confirmed)
— source fsfellowship.news | Jul 23, 2022