Gina Hoiska

I'm not getting really enough time to work on that. And to be honest, I was more drawn to doing something like really with my hands and not just writing stuff and having students do the stuff with their hands. So I ended up as a software engineer. in the industry and ended up writing a bunch of software like in Java, IPTV related actually for a big telecommunication company.

I'm not getting really enough time to work on that. And to be honest, I was more drawn to doing something like really with my hands and not just writing stuff and having students do the stuff with their hands. So I ended up as a software engineer. in the industry and ended up writing a bunch of software like in Java, IPTV related actually for a big telecommunication company.

And that went on for half a decade. And then I got myself a 3D printer and that arrest this history. So that's so cool.

And that went on for half a decade. And then I got myself a 3D printer and that arrest this history. So that's so cool.

So eight years ago, you had to make this decision to leave your job and go do... That decision was forced on me because the thing was 10 years ago already, I left this Java job because I was hired by a Spanish company who also was a vendor of 3D printers back then. They found me, they found Octoprint, they liked what I was doing, and they hired me full time to work on that back in 2014.

So eight years ago, you had to make this decision to leave your job and go do... That decision was forced on me because the thing was 10 years ago already, I left this Java job because I was hired by a Spanish company who also was a vendor of 3D printers back then. They found me, they found Octoprint, they liked what I was doing, and they hired me full time to work on that back in 2014.

But then in 2016, they ran out of money and have since also gone under completely as far as I know. So they had to let me go. And now I found myself in the position that I had been doing Octoprint for almost two years at this point full time. Like it had grown a lot, the amount of work that it needed, maintenance work, community and all of that had grown.

But then in 2016, they ran out of money and have since also gone under completely as far as I know. So they had to let me go. And now I found myself in the position that I had been doing Octoprint for almost two years at this point full time. Like it had grown a lot, the amount of work that it needed, maintenance work, community and all of that had grown.

But yeah, I was no longer getting paid for it. So it was the decision that I had to do, either try to do it as a side project again, which was an absolute no at this point already, because when I was still doing it as a side project, the first two or so years, that was already bad for my health.

But yeah, I was no longer getting paid for it. So it was the decision that I had to do, either try to do it as a side project again, which was an absolute no at this point already, because when I was still doing it as a side project, the first two or so years, that was already bad for my health.

drop it altogether, which was something that I really did not want to do and go back to a regular normal nine to five kind of job or do something that I never thought I would ever do and try to just take the step into the darkness where I did not know at all what was going to happen and try to do this crowdfunded and basically self-employed and

drop it altogether, which was something that I really did not want to do and go back to a regular normal nine to five kind of job or do something that I never thought I would ever do and try to just take the step into the darkness where I did not know at all what was going to happen and try to do this crowdfunded and basically self-employed and

Yeah, I figured if I would not at least try that, I would probably kick myself for the rest of my life and asking myself what could have been. So I jumped into the cold water and did it. And so far it's been working.

Yeah, I figured if I would not at least try that, I would probably kick myself for the rest of my life and asking myself what could have been. So I jumped into the cold water and did it. And so far it's been working.

Yeah, I'm really not that big of a fan of this whole open core thing. And personally, I also felt like I could not really do that because I forked off of open source software. So the part that talks to your printer was something that I basically took from a slicer of all things because that already was talking to Cura. Cura had a communication part that I could just take over.

Yeah, I'm really not that big of a fan of this whole open core thing. And personally, I also felt like I could not really do that because I forked off of open source software. So the part that talks to your printer was something that I basically took from a slicer of all things because that already was talking to Cura. Cura had a communication part that I could just take over.

A lot of people had contributed. So going like, yeah, I'm going to close this down now and we are only going to keep an open source. It just felt wrong and to this day feels wrong. And I believe in open source and I... find it a bit weird that it's still news for people out there that, yeah, open source in general should be something that should be funded.

A lot of people had contributed. So going like, yeah, I'm going to close this down now and we are only going to keep an open source. It just felt wrong and to this day feels wrong. And I believe in open source and I... find it a bit weird that it's still news for people out there that, yeah, open source in general should be something that should be funded.

We shouldn't have to jump through hoops by selling stuff around it because what we do with maintaining open source is already a full-time job.

We shouldn't have to jump through hoops by selling stuff around it because what we do with maintaining open source is already a full-time job.