Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS

The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

Moving beyond the charity framework

A healthy ecosystem for supporting open source in the long term.

Freemium the Registry

Laurie Voss on an open source funding model

Nominate OSS for Funding — Open Source Endowment

Nominate critical, underfunded open source projects for OSE grant funding through our open, community-developed model.

Open source has a funding problem - Stack Overflow

Relying on volunteers to maintain every open source project isn't long term sustainable. Funding open source projects could keep development moving, but would that funding be raised and who would pay for it?

Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com

Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.

It's time to pay the maintainers

Or, what Voltron can teach us about improving open source development.

Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source

Open Source Saturation

In Supporting Open Source Software I discussed the critical need for better support for contributors to open source projects. Now, Quo Vadi...

Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.

Sustain

Sustain brings together practitioners, sustainers, funders, researchers and maintainers of the open source ecosystem. We have conversations about the health and sustainability of the open source community. We learn about the ins and outs of what ‘open source’ entails in the real world. Open source means so much more than a license; we're interested in talking about how to make sure that the culture of open source continues, grows, and ultimately, sustains itself. Newsletter

The Money In Open-Source Software | TechCrunch

It’s no secret that open-source technology -- once the province of radicals, hippies and granola eaters -- has gone mainstream. According to industry estimates, more than 180 young companies that give away their software raised roughly $3.2 billion in financing from 2011 to 2014. Despite the growing popularity of open-source software, though, many open-source companies are not financially healthy.

How much are open-source developers really worth? Hundreds of billions of dollars, say economists

A new report finds that open-source technologies have huge potential, but it is still largely untapped.

Fueling Open Source with Vibes & Money

Economists think Open Source is a business model. Devs know better, and fund it accordingly.