Vlad-Stefan Harbuz

Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on...

“In Open Source, what looks like fairness often is not. Free for everyone sounds equitable, but the cost does not disappear. It is absorbed by those who can least afford it, while the organizations that benefit most often pay the least.”

We haven't yet settled on a model. We're aiming to develop the criteria in collaboration with the community, with discussions happening here: github.com/osendowment/...

appreciate youse ❤️

Vlad-Stefan Harbuz: "This kind of trust reveals a deep understanding present in npmx’s culture — an understanding that we depend on other people more than we know, and that we can only go so far by ourselves." 🤍💚

It looks like you can just append the year to the end of the URL, but apologies if you meant something else entirely

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Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

We heard the Bluesky community cares about Open Source, so we showed up 👋

Our endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers is already at $729k, and we're developing a model for distributing our first funding round.

Have ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects? We're listening.

The just-announced Open Source Endowment is now on Bluesky, and we're open to your ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects 🙏

@patak.cat you can get your data to be hosted in Europe if you use cal.eu instead of cal.com (same service)

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

There are a couple of pages on this in Roads and Bridges (Eghbal 2016, 53ff). I'd also love to read more on this.

Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors?

Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.

What matters is the people, their relationships, their evolving friendships, their communities. What matters is the health and sustainability of our ever-expanding network of trust. So we can work together advancing our shared commons to the benefit of all of us.

killing it

I'm sure your writing will help others! 😊

“[I was] too scared to actually open a PR. I convinced myself that every amazing developer would be able to read my code and see how terrible it was.”

If this resonates with you, I hope @paulie.codes's celebration-worthy story about how she became an Open Source contributor can be an inspiration 🎉

daniel: "I don't think we need 10x developers to build great things. I think we need 10x teams – groups of people who care about the same problem, who iterate together, and who make each other better" 🤍

T-minus two weeks until Taiwan: Rail Rush

More npmx goodness. The word kindness comes up repeatedly in that community. It's a core value. Once again, it's so life affirming to be celebrating kindness in a tech community.

Rather than the grind, or the hustle, or the 996, or the yngmi.

Building in a state of grace.

Thanks @danielroe.dev

npmx: A Lesson in Open Source's Collaboration Feedback Loops | Open Source Pledge npmx's success is reminding us why Open Source is such a special social phenomenon.

Congratulations to the @npmx.dev team on their launch day! 🎉❤️

Here's @vlad.website on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.

Announcing npmx: a fast, modern browser for the npm registry Today we're releasing the alpha of npmx.dev – a fast, modern browser for the npm registry, built in the open by a growing community.

npmx is now in alpha: this is our story, as told by our team and friends

thank you for reading, friends! :) I hope Google can join the @opensourcepledge.com one day

OSS maintainers, if a company sent you a chunk of cash, what would you spend it on? @patak.cat spent it on infra helping him continue his Open Source adventures. Would you buy tools you need? Or use it to take care of your physical/mental health? Tell us, so we can make the best case to companies✨️

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@chadwhitacre.com IANAL but this seems plausibly compatible with the Open Source Definition…? 🤔

perfect ❤

thanks for the support! 😊

Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

I'm one of the early "members" of the Open Source Endowment. Eager to see where this is going:

"Truly sustainable funding for critical OSS through a community‑driven endowment"

https://endowment.dev/

A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.

We just launched the Open Source Endowment, the first endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers, with $693,000 raised already.

The world depends on Open Source, but making our ecosystem sustainable is a complex task. I hope that, with community consultation, the Endowment can help 🙏