An interesting aspect of the discussion here is that the opinion is that there seems to be only a few options for funding an open source organisation: venture f

An interesting aspect of the discussion here is that the opinion is that there seems to be only a few options for funding an open source organisation: venture funded or organic growth. Venture funded is challenging, as it is all about gold digging. Organic growth is generally a slow and hard path. If you have other goals than just money, there is actually quite a lot of opportunity to work on open source software, with viable business models and interesting things to work on.