Free Libre Open Source Software
Events in Canada
Open Source Business Models and Sustainability
Noting things that have been said about sustaining FLOSS projects.
- https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet-s-biggest-blind-spot-b9aa23618c58
- https://medium.com/@nayafia/open-source-infrastructure-the-q-a-a44615861944
- https://medium.com/@nayafia/open-source-was-worth-at-least-143m-of-instagram-s-1b-acquisition-808bb85e4681#.w58lpwmps
- https://medium.com/@nayafia/we-re-in-a-brave-new-post-open-source-world-56ef46d152a3#.1yyreuae7
- https://opensource.com/article/18/1/how-start-open-source-program-your-company
- https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-hidden-benefit-of-giving-back-to-open-source-software
- https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure
- https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-earn-a-living-selling-my-open-source-software-476f6bb07e
- https://matt.life/writing/the-asymmetry-of-open-source
- https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/12/book-review-working-in-public-the-making-and-maintenance-of-open-source-software-by-nadia-eghbal/
- https://blog.scottlogic.com/2021/12/20/open-source-sustainability.html
- https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/01/how-do-artists-get-paid/
- How to pay professional maintainers
- Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
- Selling my own GPL software part 3, prior art (existing GPL software for sale)
- How to support open-source software and stay sane
- this references academic funding sources in the US and UK, I wonder what the equivalents in Canada would be
- The Asymmetry of Open Source
- I'm Now a Full-time Professional Open Source Maintainer
Co-op free-software consultancies
- Igalia(wikipedia) is a worker co-operative consultancy which does work in free software
- Agaric Co-op
Open Source Program Office (OSPO)
A distinct department within a corporation which facilitates using and contributing to open source.
Sources of funding
- Code for Canada Fellowships
- Google Summer of Code
- Mozilla Open Source Support(MOSS)
- Outreachy
- OSS.fund list of monetiziation platforms for Open Source
- Grant for the Web
- Indeed FOSS Contributor Fund
- OpenCollective
- FundOSS
- List of opportunities, grants, fellowship programs, contests and things like that for young ambitious people
- List of Microgrants
- SOS Rewards
- OSS Virtual Incubator
- List of Open source Internship Programs
- FOSS Jobs
- nlnet Foundation - Alternative Funding Sources
- 25+ Paid Open Source Programs and Internships
- Preparing for the wave of open source funding
- A handy guide to financial support for open source
- Prototype Fund
- fund for Open Source developers in Germany
- Sovereign Tech Fund
- Sovereign Tech Fund Feasibility Study
- discussed on the Open Source Security Podcast episode 368
Monetizing content
If you write a project and write about a project, monetizing that content could also be a useful way to sustain that work:
- ads and affiliate links
- donations/subscriptions/patronage
- example of donation from The Marginalian(Brain Pickings)
- Patreon
- https://webmonetization.org/
- https://interledger.org/
- https://coil.com/
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/03/web-monetization-coil-and-firefox-reality/
- Ideas to monetize your side projects.
Getting started
There are various projects which are working to make it easier for new contributors. The following contains projects which mark issues beginner friendly, list of those projects, or tools to help find those projects.
Advice and discussions
- 6 Staring Points for Open Source Beginners
- Request For Commits – Episode #10: Finding New Contributors
Other tools for finding issues to work on
There are tools for finding things to work on in FLOSS projects, but are not specifically for beginners.
- BugsAhoy, which search open issues in Mozilla projects
- Code Triage