Code Not Required! The Many Ways to Support Open Source Projects
summary
Open source appears in 96% of codebases and one study estimates a $4.15B supply value versus roughly $8.8T demand, forcing a 3.5x cost if teams reinvent the wheel. Contributions include documentation, translations, issue triage, release management, and donations of time, services, or money. German sovereign tech funding supports projects like Maven, JUnit, Log4j and curl and pays for concrete work: dependency migration, Renovate adoption, Jira→GitHub moves, and automated release verification, plus native build modernization and improved Kotlin support.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:19Importance of open source
- 7:51Motivation to contribute
- 15:09Ways to contribute
- 24:27Government funding examples
- 29:22How to start contributing
- 40:07Q&A
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