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Join me in taking a look at the current state of open source software funding, what the potential paths to financial sustainability currently look like for maintainers, and what new models are being explored.
- What options do projects have when looking to be financially sustainable long-term? - What organizations are funding free and open source software, and how do they allocate it? - What does it looks like to have funding that isn't subject to unstable corporate budgets and interests? - What’s missing from our current models of funding?
I’ll include info from some of the top Open Source Program Offices currently funding corporate dependencies; government-funded initiatives aimed at sustaining digital public goods we all rely on; and user-sustained projects that rely on the goodwill of individuals. We’ll touch on what place Accelerators and Grants have in this, and peeling away the growth-curve expectations from investors who may, or may not, understand the needs of free and open source.
Let’s start 2024 with the crucial question: how do we ensure the software our societies depend on is sustainable long-term?
Kara Sowles works on Open Source Programs at GitHub, where she gets to focus full-time on supporting OSS maintainers. She ran the first cohort of GitHub Accelerator, a funding program aimed at finding new paths to financial sustainability for projects. She co-organizes Maintainer... Read More →
