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Great to hear about his. Our small company would like to help fund this kind of thing but I'm not sure where to start. This gave me a few ideas, thanks.
by sparrish 9y ago
Great to hear about his. Our small company would like to help fund this kind of thing but I'm not sure where to start. This gave me a few ideas, thanks.
- khc 9y agoSpeaking as someone who has trouble finding time to work on his open source projects, I would say one way to start is by reaching out to small open source projects that your company uses. Larger projects tend to have momentum to keep going but the one-man projects are more at risk. I've had people reach out offering a couple hundred dollars for specific fixes but larger, months long contracts are what some of the more niche projects really need.
- kakwa_ 9y agoI would love to see the following funding scheme: Have a service that provides a list of Open Source projects properly indexed (github projects, sourceforge, projects with their own infrastructure) where the projects/individual contributors can register. In tech companies, allow somthing like $50 per employee per month that the employee can see fit to give to one or several Open Source projects of his choice. Unless changed, the amount given is the same every month. If no allocation is done by the employee, the $50 are distributed by the service to projects that need it the most. This would be a great way in my opinion for tech companies to give back to OSS project as these companies, most of the time, relies heavily on Open Source projects.