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Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding for FOSS

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Talkat FOSS Backstage 2025 · 2025-03-10..03-11· [open-source, data-visualization]

speakers

name:Dawn M Foster
website:https://docs.google.com/file/d/1Fmcqg5OQODtOZX35ueUQBC1rhTW3nR8z/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword
name:Mirko Boehm
bluesky:mirkoboehm.bsky.social
name:Cailean Osborne
github:ccosborne
name:Paul Sharratt
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/S7TluGPvmnk
slides:none on file

summary

A practical toolkit maps how public funding changes projects and ecosystems with concrete examples: the Next Generation Internet program funds 1,200 projects with ~220M EUR since 2019, the Sovereign Tech Fund has spent 23.5M EUR and now runs a 19M EUR annual agency, and CHAOSS provides community health metrics used to measure outcomes. Mixed quantitative and qualitative methods estimate multiplier effects (a 10% rise in contributions links to ~0.4–0.6% EU GDP growth in one study), warn of dependency and motivation shifts, and offer measurement practices and pitfalls.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Introduction and presenters
  2. 1:27Background and research motivation
  3. 3:13Public funding examples and projects
  4. 6:44Prior work and challenges
  5. 9:13Toolkit fundamentals and challenges
  6. 16:00Estimating multiplier effects
  7. 20:18Next steps and community collaboration
  8. 22:49Q&A session

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