Open Source Sustainability & Philanthropy: Building Contributor Communities
summary
A corporate volunteer incentive model converts logged contribution hours into charitable donations via an open source dollars for your hours program partnered with NumFOCUS and pandas, backed by mentorship, timed global work sessions, a development setup checklist and contribution dialogues. Two cohorts produce 100+ global participants and 40+ pull requests with many from women and underrepresented groups, some contributors continuing after the program, and participating employees voting pandas to receive Bloomberg Force contribution funds.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Open source sustainability
- 1:11Bloomberg’s open source principles
- 3:40Beyond open source consumption
- 5:03Open Source Dollars for Hours
- 8:36Power of community in open source
- 10:46Sustaining pandas with OSI
- 14:37Global open source mentorship
- 17:49Success stories and impact
- 19:57Scaling the framework
- 21:47Acknowledgments and closing
- 22:08Q&A: Corporate support
- 24:58Q&A: Convincing companies
- 26:46Q&A: Work vs volunteer time
- 29:31Q&A: Benefits to pandas
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