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I'm involved, yes. Founding board (but not the founder). 😌
Only 15 years ahead of your time! Discovered here:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022...
We finally got around to this, @trikro.bsky.social. 😅
grasshopperherder.com/national-end... → endowment.dev
Plausibly! :D
i want to send more post cards
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Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER> I license this software to you in the spirit of the gift. This means: 1. You MAY do whatever you want with it. 2. You MAY offer to reciprocate with your own gifts of feedback, product, labor, money, etc. 3. If you make a lot of money with this gift, you SHOULD offer to reciprocate with a lot of money. 4. I MAY accept or reject your reciprocal gifts. 5. You MUST include this license with any redistribution. The key words "MUST", "SHOULD", and "MAY" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
I may have just accidentally written a Gift Community License (GCL), proximately prompted by Rich Hickey. 🐭
gist.github.com/chadwhitacre...
I posted on the @opensourcepledge.com blog about OSE:
opensourcepledge.com/blog/welcomi...
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 🙏
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/
PostCSS powers 0.5% of ALL web pages but only earned $300/month for 13 years. This story is not unique.
Your app likely has 550+ OSS dependencies. Most are one burned-out maintainer away from disaster.
This is the Nebraska problem. And here is the fix:
evilmartians.com/chronicles/s...
And we just submitted a grant application!
Love to see this kind of thing. Fund your local open source maintainer 🙏
Be like Jeff. Join OSE. 😎
That paper last month about how vibe coding kills Open Source? Right conclusion but wrong title. Afaict vibe coding *fuels* Open Source ... but so does money, yeah. New blog post:
openpath.quest/2026/fueling...
I loved working full-time on @vite.dev hired by StackBlitz. High praise to companies hiring OSS devs!
But as I did when starting @vitest.dev with @antfu.me, for this new community adventure, as project steward of @npmx.dev together with @danielroe.dev, I'll be going independent. Here we go again ❤️
Welcome aboard! 👏 We are now up over $3M ARR from Pledge members to OSS maintainers. 💪💃
Alright, this is kind of a grandiose claim: “Open Source offers hope against tyranny.” But then I think back through the people I met and the stories they shared, and I'm pretty sure I believe this enough to post it.
openpath.quest/2026/open-so...
Thanks for the kind words! Glad at least one person picked up on the threads from earlier. ;-)
A series around Open Source should be vying for Most Boring award.
But instead…
OpenPath from @chadwhitacre.com and @syntax.fm is so good!
Feels like season finale since it wraps up some threads introduced early on. Look forward to the next, no matter how long it takes.
youtu.be/tOn-L3tGKw0?...
Credit where credit is due. ☝️😌
Wow, fancy seeing a pic of @hugovk.dev promptly flashing in @chadwhitacre.com's @syntax.fm episode.
People in the central interview: youtu.be/tOn-L3tGKw0: @asherman.bsky.social @agafonkin.com @denysdovhan.com @tyrrrz.me
#StandWithUkraine #Python
This video has an outstandingly sensitive portrayal of the Ukrainian invasion, alongside deep storytelling about the social dynamics of Open Source. So proud of @chadwhitacre.com for making this.
Bottomless thanks to @vlad.website for all the feedback and support and encouragement and help to get this out the door! It's far from perfect, but it's a much stronger video because of him. 🙏
Ultimately, you can either run an org or depend from one, there’s no alternative.
The agencies that employ people providing public services are still organizations, where someone pitches and manages projects. Academic grants are even more overhead work.
You can't just build a really neat road and wait for the check to show up in the mail. *Someone* has to do the org work.
You could run the org? And how would the laws pick who to pay, anyway?
Maintainers often complain about being especially exploited, but tbh I can't think of another profession which expects to just do the work and be spontaneously rewarded for it, without doing any sales or running a business.
Download numbers from the sysinfo crate where you can see very few downloads on week-ends compared to week days, and in particular, very small numbers around the end of the year.
Seems like people are back from holiday (numbers are for crates.io/crates/sysinfo). :)
I'm sad to see so many companies using it but very few sponsoring me... I'm hoping that at some point, opensource maintainers come together and say "if you make money from our work, pay for it". One can dream...
Yeah sorry, Pledge is not a short-term solution for projects, it's a loooong term solution when enough companies start paying up. Each member company shares an annual report of what they paid to whom, you can find those on member pages:
opensourcepledge.com/members/
That and/or @opensourcepledge.com 👍