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Funding for OSS projects is typically dire. In 2019, developer André Staltz collected data from Open Collective and GitHub to assess project revenues. Over 50 per cent of projects couldnt sustain their maintainers above the poverty line, while 31 per cent generated enough for a salary considered unacceptable in the industry. The sample size was small (58), but that made these results even more illuminating. It comprised relatively large projects, most with at least one full-time contributor. F...

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Today marks ten years since the release of the very first version of elementary OS. Our 0.1 release, codenamed “Jupiter”, came with the bold tagline, “It’s gonna be huge”. A decade later, elementary OS is made up of over 130 open source git repositories, has its own FreeDesktop.org-recognized desktop environment, comes with more than a dozen first party apps and a unique app store with nearly 200 native third-party apps, has been translated to more than 20 languages, and most recently...

What is Web Monetization Web Monetization is a browser API that allows content creators to monetize content, and content consumers to pay for it, anonymously, without ads or any friction, like paywalls and subscriptions. The basic concept is that a content creator signals they’re accepting payments, and the content consumer, via a browser extension, natively in the browser or by account linking, streams micropayments via the Interledger, which supports a wide variety of providers and currenci...

Nick DeJesus/GitHub GitHub Sponsors lets stakeholders give money to developers of open source projects they depend on. Hundreds of devs use it to make a full-time living and some even pull in six figure salaries. A GitHub product exec told Insider the firm is planning a global expansion and testing new models. Although open source software powers some of the worlds most well-known technologies, even the most popular projects are often maintained by developers who v...

The crowdsourced-support program for independent FOSS devs opens doors to corporate sponsorship. GitHub Sponsors wants to make sure independent open source developers can get paid for what they do, so the project has been expanded by adding corporate patrons. Until fairly recently there wasnt a tried and true way for an open source software developer to make money designing and maintaining an open source project without getting a job working for a large open source vendor, which meant w...

OSS.fund Newsletter A holistic vision of open source beyond 2021 Open source is a common technological equilibrium for exchanging intellectual and financial values. But the lack of an open funding infrastructure means, there still what we can wish for... Share After working with open source for over a decade, from startups to the world’s largest open source company, and cataloging more than 100 open source monetization and funding platforms for my side project, I came to a realization. The t...

December 22, 2020 After buying three wireless cards, a new WiFi router, optimizing my process for cross-compiling the Linux kernel for the Raspberry Pi, installing Intels WiFi firmware, and patching Intels wireless driver to make it work on the Raspberry Pi, I benchmarked the EDUP Intel AX200 WiFi 6 PCIe card and got 1.34 Gbps of bandwidth between the Raspberry Pi and a new ASUS WiFi 6 router. This is my story. The never-ending budget-busting project Have you ever started a project tha...