Securing technology investments and open source funding
summary
Companies need to fund the frameworks they build on because relying on unpaid maintainers creates business risk: Ember has slowed, 50 accepted RFCs pending block progress, and popular add-ons lack maintenance. The practical proposal is targeted funding and paid engineering time rather than symbolic donations: the Embroider effort shows that if roughly 50k each from ~10 companies is pooled it pays a full team for a year to finish Embroider and unlock bundle splitting, faster rebuilds and critical platform work.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:48Building on open source investments
- 8:21Ember ecosystem sustainability risks
- 17:35Securing technology investments
- 21:06Business case for funding open source
- 26:25Solutions for Ember’s future
- 29:17Embroider initiative funding model
- 33:26Call to collective action
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