Drive Your Business With Open Source Sponsorship
summary
Mercedes‑Benz runs a corporate sponsorship program that begins with developer nominations, uses GitHub Sponsors + Stripe checks to pay projects, and after three rounds now supports 34 organizations sponsored with a fourth round incoming. Procurement treats gifts as purchases, legal requires sanction‑list and invoicing checks and collectable residential info, and platforms take ~7–8% (Open Collective ~10%). Feedback shows maintainers gain motivation and one project picked up 20 additional sponsors after enabling sponsorship, proving the approach scales.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:45Meet Steve Henson
- 3:02The Heartbleed bug
- 6:45Solutions
- 11:51MercedesBenz Open Source Sponsorship
- 16:59Linux Foundation Crowdfunding
- 17:44My Experience
- 19:01Purchase vs Sponsorship
- 22:11Compliance
- 28:56Feedback
- 31:26Open Source
- 33:19MercedesBenz
- 33:55Conclusion
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