There is a petition ongoing for Germany so that working on open source projects is recognized as volunteer work. Context: Anyone who writes, maintains and translates software is officially doing this as a hobby in Germany. In terms of tax and funding law, working on open source projects does not count as volunteering, unlike working in a sports club, in youth work or in the rescue service.

More information (German): Linuxundich

Please sign if you agree with that. Link to the petition

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[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 hours ago

No thanks. I would not be able to have unemployment benefits while doing volunteer work in my country.

Technically you can, but they have to approve and it cannot compete with the "normal" job market (which it would, as open source is generally competing with proprietary software, and it's normally my job to write software)

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