The real costs of Open Source Sustainability
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Claim: funding alone does not make open source sustainable. Evidence: the 2016 roads and bridges report triggers many new funding platforms — Tidelift, GitHub Sponsors and similar — yet maintainers still hit burnout, surprise donations create tax and admin pain, and companies see monoculture risk. Proposal: treat sustainability like corporate planning (Brundtland model) and combine time talent treasure, enforce codes of conduct, widen language/geographic diversity and reduce the bus factor so projects actually survive.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 9:59Brundtland Report
- 11:48Definition of What Sustainability Is
- 17:24Corporate Sustainability
- 19:47Corporate Sustainability Planning
- 21:14Elements of Open Source Sustainability
- 27:28Human and Environmental Diversity
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