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“I met someone last week with a great business idea but no start up funds which she needs. I offered and delivered a free coaching session to them.

I also offered free coaching to 2 more people in my network who are struggling with something.”

This anonymous business owner is a kindness superhero to us - offering support to people is a wonderful act of kindness.

What kindness did you see this week?

It's really important that I hit the target this month because of my Job Centre review at the end of the month. We've started pretty good, which is nice, just need to keep up that energy.

Anything you can do to help is appreciated!

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So this person / startup contacted me to consult on development of their new product, a sort of agricultural drone. They found my #floss work on high-speed cameras and optical flow, and want my help.

Their product and the end-game of a product I'm developing (drone shepherd which protects grazing animals from predators) uses similar technology. So the work would have to be done by me in the end, a few years down the line. I told them I could help out, on the premise that all code I produce is free software.

The thing is, in terms of money... I have no money. I also have more pressing matters at hand, and a lot of features to develop and services to provide for products I already offer.
The company asking me also has no money, for now.

A person has to eat, and I do run a flosshw consultancy, so this is exactly the kind of thing I should take payment to do.

How should I bring up the matter of compensation / providing a livelihood for myself while doing the work?

IF you happen to be a #freelance person or someone who runs a web #store, let me know and I'll likely add it to my directory that I'm working on. Requirements include that any stores be run by one person, or, if by multiple people by a peer group roughly analogous to a family.

If your store is run by multiple people who have equal share in the business, that's a worker coöperative which belongs in a different section of the directory to which I can add it

A super talented friend of mine has been trying (and unfortunately failing) to make her first sale since the start of Feb. Getting a new business off the ground is hard - right?

I sent her some marketing tips and helped her get set up on Mastodon and 2 hours after posting her first promotional post she got her first commission.

This is the power of the Fediverse and if you'd like to unlock it, I can help you do just that - let me know if you're interested.