FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects
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Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects
#2Interesting that these kind of things are done by less known companies, not the big names. At least that's my (uninformed) impression.
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#3Interesting that these kind of things are done by less known companies, not the big names. At least that's my (uninformed) impression.
FYI - Zerodha is the biggest platform for retail investors in the Indian markets.
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#4Interesting that these kind of things are done by less known companies, not the big names. At least that's my (uninformed) impression.
To be fair Microsoft have been making contributions. I’ve received two $1000 contributions from them in the past couple of years.
It’s obviously not enough to give up the day job, but it dwarfs all other contributions I’ve had.
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#5To apply, the project must place a funding.json in their public code repository or at a well-known uri location on their domain: https://dir.floss.fund/submit
That's already 10x more simpler than the 20 page document some of these other orgs have you fill. Looking at you Llama Impact Grants, OpenAI Cybersecurity Grants, NLNet, & OpenTechFund.
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Disclaimer: A project I co-develop was granted £3.75k in 2023 back when FOSS United grants were co-sponsored by Zerodha (the same company behind FLOSS/fund). The entire process was over in like 3 days from the date of application.
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Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects
#7Interesting that these kind of things are done by less known companies, not the big names. At least that's my (uninformed) impression.
To be fair Microsoft have been making contributions. I’ve received two $1000 contributions from them in the past couple of years. It’s obviously not enough to give up the day job, but it dwarfs all other contributions I’ve had.
In my experience developers as a whole are very stingy, even though they complain about companies not donating to open source all the time, and complain when companies do donate but the amount is too little for their liking. (For instance, when I google “microsoft foss fund payout” the first result after the official landing page is https://lobste.rs/s/wyvnuu/microsoft_foss_fund_winner_curl complaining about the amount.)
As a data point, my open source web app for a casual game received thousands of dollars of donations (not remotely covering the development cost if we go by hourly rate but that’s never the goal), while my open source developer tool with a couple thousand stars on GitHub received Disclosure: I donate a very modest amount to various projects every year.
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#8I wonder what projects will end up receiving money from this fund. It's nice that more funds are available, but my best guess would be that these will go to projects which probably don't really need them anyway.
From my experience, open source projects are either big and massively funded, able to pay their own developers a salary, or the projects end up in a void filled with burned-out maintainers whose only appreciation is an occasional $15 donation and issues filled with negativity and sometimes even hatred.
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#9To apply, the project must place a funding.json in their public code repository or at a well-known uri location on their domain: https://dir.floss.fund/submit That's already 10x more simpler than the 20 page document some of these other orgs have you fill. Looking at you Llama Impact Grants, OpenAI Cybersecurity Grants, NLNet, & OpenTechFund. --- Disclaimer: A project I co-develop was granted £3.75k in 2023 back when…
They probably need more stuff for tax (tax deduction) reasons, after all it can be considered a (deductible) donation.
Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects
#10Interesting that these kind of things are done by less known companies, not the big names. At least that's my (uninformed) impression.
I think any employee in tech should appeal to their employers to donate / contribute to the open source projects they use.