FLOSS Sustainability: Lessons from a Funding Crisis
summary
Decidim faces a 2022 cash shock that creates a €50k shortfall and triggers a Sustainability Plan to diversify income. The plan builds a funder database, pursues EU and philanthropic grants (15 bids, 2 wins: an Horizon project and Fondation de France), and launches a partnership policy asking service providers for a 3% partner fee; the ecosystem generates ~€3M/year and 11 of 20 partners are paying. Core public grants now total ~€200k/year, team grows from 2 to 7, and public funding drops from 67% (2023) toward ~54% (2025).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to CDIM
- 2:57Origin of funding crisis
- 5:27Sustainability plan creation
- 9:41Partnership policy and ecosystem
- 12:10Fundraising challenges and wins
- 13:37Public funding model
- 16:51Progress and results so far
- 18:39Key challenges faced
- 21:49Lessons and recommendations
- 23:35Q&A session
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