November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
48 pages
58m
English
Content preview from Investing in Open Source: The FOSS Contributor Fund
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Introduction
Open source is many things. It’s the definition of a license. It’s a way of solving shared problems. It’s a community. It’s a project. It’s an experiment. It’s an ecosystem. But there is one thing that sits at the heart of open source:
People.
People write and interpret licenses, solve shared problems, run the experiments, and power the ecosystem. Without people, open source doesn’t work. Open source is intentionally, and necessarily, participatory.
One way to empower participation is through funding. Developer-to-developer and user-to-creator funding has experienced wonderful growth over the last 10 years, and some open source creators derive significant income through this kind of funding.
However, organization-to-project and company-to-creator funding is complex and needs goals and structure to be successful. We’re excited to share how Indeed has created a program to fund projects and developers, and we want to inspire you to develop a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Contributor Fund at your own organization.
Getting Involved in Funding Open Source
We started an open source program at Indeed because we wanted to do our part to help open source thrive, which means we want as many people participating as we can get—mindfully, intentionally, and authentically. We see the evidence of this type of participation everywhere in the open source community.
Project maintainers invest significant time and energy in making it easy to participate. They write detailed ...
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