I am a contributor to Open-Source software(Jina - an AI search framework) and I am annoyed with how some people make fun of the sheer hard work of open-source developers.

For the last 1 yr, we had made our contributors team meetings public(everyone could listen and participate during the meeting). And this is what happened in our last meeting - While we were sharing news about upcoming Jina 2.0 release in the zoom meeting, some loud racist music starts playing automatically and someone starts drawing a dck on the screen.

It was demotivating to say the least. Building open-source project is challenging at multiple fronts other than the core technical challenges

- Understand what needs to be built

- Improve that continuously

- Help people understand the project

- Educate people about the domain

- Reach out people who might benefit from your project

- Collaborate with other contributors

- Deal with issues/PRs

- Deal with outdated versions/docs

- Deal with different opinions

- Sometimes deal with jerks like the ones who zoombombed us

The list is long! Open-source is hard! Open-source exists because of some good people out there like you/me who care about the open-source so deeply to invest their time and energy for a little good for everyone else. It exists because of communities like Hackernews where we can find the support and the motivation.

I wanted to vent out my negative experiences and wanted to say a big *Thank you* to you all open-source people, thanks to many(1.6k) contributors who made it possible for us to release [Jina 2.0](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/) .

I'd want to know your opinion, how do you deal with such unexpected events and how do you keep yourself motivated as an open-source developer?