Open Source Collective: The Business of Open Community
summary
Concrete outcomes and numbers matter here fiscal infrastructure is built not promised The organization runs fiscal hosting for open source projects and has moved $7 million to over 2000 projects paying out 5000 expenses, supports a webpack collective with a ~400k yearly budget, runs Back Your Stack dependency tooling, integrates with GitHub Sponsors and bitcoin, convenes Sustain OSS and negotiated corporate channels like Samsung and Google to disburse grants and raised 115k for COVID event relief so projects actually get paid and stay healthy
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 0:57Who Works on Sustainability in the Open Source Ecosystem
- 4:30Hiring Devs in-House
- 5:40Donations
- 18:56Open Source Collective
- 21:32Scale of Sustainability
- 30:02My Role within Open Source Collective
- 34:37Collective Slack Channel
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