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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 wasn't 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 writing code for somebody else's applications and having no control over the direction of the projec...

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 term open source does not have a broad enough perspective to capture all of the perceived values of m...

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 Intel's WiFi firmware, and patching Intel's 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 that should take a couple hours with a fifty dollar budget, and realized at the end you spent a whole...