The other day I came across a new initiative for funding open source development called the Bitcoin Grant. While interesting at first sight, I was wondering: How is this better than the traditional donation button most open source projects have? The Bitcoin Grant then seems to limit who can donate and how you can use those donations (you can’t pay rent with bitcoins just yet).
Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects?
In April I donated $5,000 of the ad revenue from this website to an open source .NET project. It was exciting to be able to inject some of the energy from this blog into the often-neglected .NET open source ecosystem. As I mentioned at the time, I used
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Why Funding Open Source is Hard
tl;dr: Either developers need to change, or GitHub needs to change
Moving beyond the charity framework
A healthy ecosystem for supporting open source in the long term.
When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Superior - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
The Open Source Initiative's mission statement reads, “Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.”
It’s time to rethink Open Source
Why developers give away valuable work for free — and what can be done to take that money back.
What I’ve learned over the past year funding open source
July 8 marks the 1 year birthday of CodeFund (previously Code Sponsor). It has been an amazing experience so far. I’ve met so many amazing…
Fueling Open Source with Vibes & Money
Economists think Open Source is a business model. Devs know better, and fund it accordingly.
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.
How to manage casual contributors to open source projects
Try these strategies to better utilize contributions from your project's episodic volunteers.
Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-source-for-science-…
Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery
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