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Ask HN: What entities out there provide open-source grants/funding?
In the lines of the Mozilla Technology Fund, and others.
- pabs3 3y agoThere are a bunch of grants listed on the FOSSjobs wiki, please add any more you find: https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#grants https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#grants
- pabs3 3y agoA lot of these providers of grants to open source don't actually use open source themselves, so you can't apply without enabling proprietary JavaScript, joining their Slack etc :(
- willbicks 3y agoFUTO is a newer player in this space: https://futo.org/ https://futo.org/
- aerzen 3y agoWhere do the finances for foundations like come from? Purly donations? Or is it government funded? This is a key information one would be looking for on the site, but i cannot find it.
- jorams 3y agoFUTO is funded by billionaire Eron Wolf. There's an interview[1] with him on their YouTube. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UHF84gyVWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UHF84gyVWg
- vmbrasseur 3y agoFOSS Funders is a community of companies that sponsor FOSS maintainers and projects: https://fossfunders.com https://fossfunders.com
- pabs3 3y agoIt doesn't seem possible for FOSS folks/projects to apply to this one, you have to get noticed by employees of the companies involved and get them to nominate you?
- simon_acca 3y agoClojurists together: https://www.clojuriststogether.org/ https://www.clojuriststogether.org/
- srhtftw 3y agoThe NLnet Foundation supports organizations and people that contribute to an open information society. It was influential in spreading the Internet throughout Europe in the 1980s. In 1997, the foundation sold off its commercial networking operations to UUNET (now part of Verizon), resulting in an endowment with which it makes grants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLnet
- LanternLight83 3y agoThey've sponsered many of my favorite projects and teams: https://nlnet.nl/project/ https://nlnet.nl/project/
- redsh 3y agohttps://aigrant.org/ https://aigrant.org/ for AI projects
- pabs3 3y agoHmm, this doesn't have any contact info.
- PeterStuer 3y agoThe EU framework research programs have strongly favoured FOSS contributions. It's certainly not the most straightforward application process though and competition for the grants outside niche domains is cutthroat.
- pabs3 3y agoIs this the link for that? https://www.scienceeurope.org/our-priorities/eu-framework-programmes/ https://www.scienceeurope.org/our-priorities/eu-framework-pr...
- cpach 3y agoThe Sovereign Tech Fund: https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/ https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/
- ThePhysicist 3y agoAlso the Prototype Fund, funded by some of the same people but focused on early-stage projects: https://prototypefund.de https://prototypefund.de
- CaptainIRS 3y ago[dead]
- pabs3 3y agoSeems like they aren't funding projects right now.
- az226 3y agoGitHub, a16z, Stability, Nat Friedman.