An introduction to Sustain

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Sustain runs cross-discipline working groups on licensing, ethics, corporate accountability, design and environmental sustainability and is building community infrastructure: monthly podcasts, ad hoc Zoom groups, regional events in London, Brussels, Lagos and Boulder, and a new matching maintainer fund live at fundoss.org seeded with $75,000 using quadratic funding; the fund launches with institutional backing from the Sloan Foundation and aims to direct matched grants to maintainers who otherwise get no pay.

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