The Unsolvable Dilemma: Open Networks vs. Economic Sustainability - Nightflight

Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model

Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on it most.

Fueling Open Source with Vibes & Money

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

Open source sustainability | TechCrunch

Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion

Moving beyond the charity framework

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

The New Deal for the Open Source Community

Building the Economic Layer to our Digital Infrastructure

The Open Stack | LinkedIn

Notes from the field on sustainability, funding, and the systems we rely on

Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source

To scale and sustain Open Source ecosystems in a more efficient and fair manner, Open Source projects need to embrace new governance, coordination and incentive models.

About | Open Source Ecology

The mission of Open Source Ecology (OSE) is to create the open source economy. An open source, libre economy is an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration. To get there, OSE is currently developing a set of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker.

We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities

Sustainable Free and Open Source software is not about business models, it’s about building sustainable communities.

What does a sustainable open source project look like?

Over the past couple years, thanks in part to Nadia Eghbal’s Roads and Bridges report, the world is starting to see the need for long-term…

Ecosystem Mapping — Open Tech Strategies | Blog

All the power of open source comes from throwing in with your neighbors, even the neighbors you don't like very much. For most projects, the main reason to get involved in open source is to create productive relations with as many participants as possible, including rivals. Doing this well requires understanding who is in your ecosystem and how they relate to each other.

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

Scaling Open Source communities

Successful Open Source projects must transition from pure volunteerism to include paid contributions, mirroring how public goods like roads evolved historically.

Open source engagement in organizations

Companies, governments, and other organizations big and small are working with open source to achieve their goals. Teams range from barely considering it to ...

How We're Funded

IOI is supported through a mix of philanthropic support and financial commitments from institutions, consortia-based organizations, and more. As a sustainability focused not-for-profit initiative, we are keenly aware of the strains that exist on the current funding landscape for open infrastructure non-profits. We are dedicated at IOI to exploring revenue