A curated list of awesome resources for infrastructure and funding to support open source projects and authors ... funding really matters since money is a indication of earnest interest --- but, we cannot forget, that it's not just about funding ... there's the general infrasture and things like guidelines or best practices for open source developers and exploration of what people are doing because it is kind of important to always be trying to build upon and extend what others are doing ... ultimately, we probably need to do a better job putting the outlines for AWESOME lists of material in some sort of Grafana dashboard.
- Saasify - Provides monetized APIs on top of OSS projects.
- CodeFund - Provides funding for makers via ethical ads.
- Tidelift - Provides subscriptions connecting businesses with OSS devs.
- FOSSA - Open source management for enterprise teams.
- Gitcoin - Crowdfunding and freelance devs for your software projects.
- Back Your Stack - Discover your dependencies and financially support them.
- Scarf - Provides monetized CLIs for OSS projects.
- xs:code - Paid subscriptions for OSS projects.
- GitHub Sponsors - Recurring donations for GitHub developers and organizations.
- Patreon - Membership and recurring donations for independent creators.
- Open Collective - Open communities with full financial transparency.
- Buy me a coffee - Donations and relationship building for independent creators.
- Salt - Crowdfunding to help devs earn a monthly salary from OSS.
- Liberapay - Recurring donations for OSS projects.
- Flattr - Monthly subscription for donating to OSS projects.
- thanks - Give thanks to the open source maintainers you depend on.
- Ko-fi - Single and recurring donations for your projects without platform fees.
- Issuehunt - Issue-based crowd sourcing/funding for OSS projects.
- Bountysource - Bounty-based funding for OSS projects.
- License Zero - For-profit licenses for OSS projects.
- Lemonade Stand - The de facto living survey of different approaches for funding OSS.
- Getting paid for OSS - A solid guide for traditional means of funding OSS.
- Why funding open source is hard - Awesome read by Eric Berry.
- How to keep the lights on at Codefund - Excellent analysis of different approaches to OSS funding by Eric Berry.
- Fighting for open source sustainability
- Funding experiment recap - Great breakdown and insights by Feross.
- Should OSS advertise?
- Open core vs SaaS
- The internet relies on people working for free
- Open Core Summit Intro
- Commercializing open source - By a16z.
- What comes after open source? - By a16z.
- Passion Economy - By a16z.
- What is subscription based open source?
- Open core definition and tradeoffs
- COSS business models
- Creating OSS value != Capturing OSS value
- The broken economics of OSS
- The OSS model is under siege
- The world runs on open-source, but who’s paying for gas?
- Sustain OSS - Organization focused on making OSS more sustainable.
- COSS Media - Resources to help Commercial OSS (COSS) founders build lasting companies.
- Open Core Summit - Focused on connecting the world's Commercial OSS (COSS) companies.