Drive Your Business With Open Source Sponsorship

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Mercedes‑Benz creates a corporate GitHub Sponsors fund that currently backs 34 sponsored projects including OpenSSL and curl, set up via GitHub Sponsors (no fees today) and planned expansion to Open Collective; selection comes from internal developer nominations and requires active, used projects. Implementation hits procurement and compliance snags — need full name/address for sanctions checks and accounting justification — but payouts and recognition measurably increase maintainer sustainability and prompt projects to enable sponsorship pages (more donors follow).

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1. 0:00Open source sponsorship intro
2. 3:12Heartbleed bug impact
3. 6:20Why sponsor open source
4. 9:30Mercedes-Benz sponsorship program
5. 13:41Setting up sponsorship
6. 16:52Compliance challenges
7. 21:27Mercedes-Benz open source work
8. 23:37Q&A

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