Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
blog.geteventbot.com
Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
1–10 of 68 posts
Re: Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
#2Taking that 3% and allocating towards your own developers contributing to OSS gives everyone more bang for the buck right?
It's a wonderful gesture, I don't want to take away from that. Just wondering how straight up donating compares to contributing.
Re: Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
#3Taking that 3% and allocating towards your own developers contributing to OSS gives everyone more bang for the buck right? It's a wonderful gesture, I don't want to take away from that. Just wondering how straight up donating compares to contributing.
Agreed, the funds will probably only make a difference if each OSS project gets at least enough to sustain a developer full-time. Otherwise the authors still have to maintain their day jobs.
This was a great read: https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/library/reports-and-stu...
Re: Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
#4Taking that 3% and allocating towards your own developers contributing to OSS gives everyone more bang for the buck right? It's a wonderful gesture, I don't want to take away from that. Just wondering how straight up donating compares to contributing.
> Taking that 3% and allocating towards your own developers contributing to OSS gives everyone more bang for the buck right?
I see what you mean. However, as a two person company we think the impact from supporting those projects is a better use of funds. It's all a bit of an experiment, but we wanted to put a stake in the ground somewhere because of how important open source has been to our existence as a company.
Joe (Eventbot co-founder)
Re: Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
#5Taking that 3% and allocating towards your own developers contributing to OSS gives everyone more bang for the buck right? It's a wonderful gesture, I don't want to take away from that. Just wondering how straight up donating compares to contributing.
If every company did this then it would help
Re: Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
#6good job! wish you to grow your business and scale your company to support more oss projects!
Re: Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
#7Taking that 3% and allocating towards your own developers contributing to OSS gives everyone more bang for the buck right? It's a wonderful gesture, I don't want to take away from that. Just wondering how straight up donating compares to contributing.
Why would you assume that? Presumably the maintainer is pretty knowledgeable about their project, and the maintainer may be willing to "sell" their time (on the project) for less than market rate.
Re: Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
#8This idea has made me think of donating a certain percentage of my income each year to open source projects. Does anyone have a system for donating their personal funds to open source projects?
Re: Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
#9Taking that 3% and allocating towards your own developers contributing to OSS gives everyone more bang for the buck right? It's a wonderful gesture, I don't want to take away from that. Just wondering how straight up donating compares to contributing.
This is what a company where I work does. 10% of developer time (half a day a week) to open-source contributions outside of the company direct products. As long as it helps the broader community we're a part of.
Re: Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
#10This idea has made me think of donating a certain percentage of my income each year to open source projects. Does anyone have a system for donating their personal funds to open source projects?
You, uh, take a percentage of your paycheck and click “Donate” in the page for your software of choice?