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🆕 blog! “How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?”

The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything…

How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?

When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything developed in-house by the state is available under an OSI Approved licence. The UK is generally pretty…

Terence Eden’s Blog

Dan Knauss Mar 12

Dave Winer Mar 12

Bluesky is actually pretty close to being on the web. The biggest missing piece is inbound RSS. They already support outbound, it could use a review and tuneup, but that half is mostly there. I would even go a bit further, if they really supported RSS, it would be the web.

What is Inbound RSS?

Feed readers view RSS as inbound, and blogging tools regard it as outbound.

Scripting News

Dan Knauss Mar 12

Canada needs a sovereign tech fund or endowment model for open source. Any thoughts on that @cira?

Nice initiatives, but unfunded mandates don't go far:
https://code.open.canada.ca/en/index.html
https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/open-source-software/acquiring-open-source-software.html

Open Resource Exchange

Open source software used and released by Canadian public administrations

Dan Knauss Mar 12

Copie Publique Sep 4, 2024

#introduction We are the French "Copie Publique" initiative. We gather French companies who pledged to give a % of their revenues to support #FLOSS and digital commons.

We have raised €136k for 119 projects so far. Our members are @codelutin @Nereide @John_Livingston @ouestware @ouvaton and more will join soon.

Our website is now available in English at https://copiepublique.fr/en/

Please share to anyone who cares about #funding digital commons.

#fundraising #commons #digitalCommons

Copie Publique

Copie Publique is allocated by companies and benefits free and open source projects. Vote for fair remunerations for Free/Libre/Open-Source commons.

Dan Knauss Mar 12

Open Source Pledge Mar 3

To keep the Open Source software the world relies on healthy, we need to build healthy Open Source communities. Want to help? You could build a thriving, empathetic OSS community as Railway's new Community Engineer!

https://opensourcepledge.com/jobs/

Dan Knauss Mar 12

Jeffrey Paul Mar 11

I’m pleased to be a founding donor to the Open Source Endowment, a new initiative exploring a community-funded endowment model to sustainably support critical open source infrastructure.

https://jeffpaul.com/2026/02/supporting-sustainable-open-source-via-the-open-source-endowment/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Supporting Sustainable Open Source via the Open Source Endowment

I’m pleased to be a founding donor to the Open Source Endowment, a new initiative exploring a community-funded endowment model to sustainably support critical open source infrastructure.

jeffpaul

Dan Knauss Mar 12

NGI0_Moldova Mar 11

The 12th call of #NGIZero Commons Fund is still open! 🤓 Deadline: April 1, 2026.
See the list of #activities #eligible for financial support:
✅ scientific research
✅ design & development of free and #opensource software and #openhardware
✅ validation / constructive inquiry into existing or novel technical solutions
✅ software engineering aimed at adapting to new usage areas / improving software quality
✅ etc.
Find more 👉 https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/eligibility/ - and apply for funding! 🎯
#NGI #NGI0 #FOSS @nlnet

Dan Knauss Mar 12

Vlad-Stefan Harbuz Mar 10

“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.”

https://dri.es/open-source-infrastructure-deserves-a-business-model

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 it most.

Dan Knauss Mar 7

Jeremy Herve Feb 18

Current, a new, calm RSS Reader

Current is a new RSS reader that takes a really interesting approach to how we consume feeds. Instead of treating your subscriptions as a to-do list with an ever-growing unread count, it presents your feeds as a river; articles flow in, linger for a while, and eventually fade away on their own.

https://herve.bzh/current-a-new-calm-rss-reader/