There's no sustainability problem in FOSS. Except that there is.
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Title promises a debate and delivers concrete cases: left-pad dependency failures, the malicious takeover of event-stream, the Heartbleed vulnerability, and PyPI’s Warehouse relaunch after a $170,000 Mozilla grant. Corporate responses include Foss Contributor Funds (Indeed: 21 projects ~$200k; Microsoft: three grants) with $10k awards, voting tied to contribution, and broad definitions of contribution. Clear about what worked, what didn’t, and which problems are funding, governance, or security.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:40What is sustainability
- 4:19Agenda
- 5:03LeftPad
- 7:41EventStream
- 8:55Responsibility vs Sustainability
- 12:15Event Streams
- 13:28Interdependency
- 16:07PIPI
- 16:51PIPI Warehouse
- 18:09Sustainability Problems
- 25:36FOSS Contributor Fund
- 27:21How FOSS Contributor Fund works
- 28:13Microsoft FOSS Contributor Fund
- 31:34Back Chat QA
- 39:55How can we grow ourselves as maintainers
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