The OSU open source lab is one of those lynchpins for many Projects in FOSS.

Even small projects like @librecast depend on those servers. To be clear we don't host our project infrastructure with them.

But when we do a Librecast release it gets tested on Debian infrastructure to package it for #Debian and #Guix. Which OSUOSL is a part of.

So if you can spare some cash for this lab, please do so.

Our ecosystem depends on this.

#OSUOSL #FossSustainability #FOSS

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

@nlnet will be at #fosdem running a couple of BOFs and will be involved with the Devroom: Funding the FOSS Ecosystem. Which is important for #fosssustainability for the #NGI ecosystem.

We won't be there at FOSDEM, but our hexstickers will as will the stickers for other projects at the NLNet hexstand in Building K level 2.

https://nlnet.nl/events/20250201/FOSDEM/index.html

Have a great time but be safe. #FosdemFlu is real. Wear a mask.

@Framasoft are doing their annual fundraiser so that it can fund it's existing 2025 planned budget. For 20 years they have been working together to create alternatives to google, but also encouraging others to host their own services.

For their existing services they need to raise 200,000 euros. But imagine if there was enough to do even more.

These are the creators of @peertube and so much more.

https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

#FossSustainability #fundraiser

Here's to another 20 years!

"Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it"

Perhaps that's something @EUCommission should bear in mind for for the FOSS infrastructure out there and @NGIZero

Fund our infrastructure. Fund our projects.

#fosssustainability #PublicMoneyPulicCode #NGI

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/19/kelsey_hightower_civo

At a time when The EU is seeking to cut FOSS funding to funds like @NGIZero

Perhaps we need to ask the EU to fund smaller, more communal projects, rather than seeking to create Unicorns.

"The report highlighted how 30% of EU startup businesses that had grown to be valued at more than €1bn – known as unicorns – had moved abroad, and mostly to list on stock markets in the US."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/09/eu-mario-draghi-report-spending-boost

So there's been some more maintainer burnout again. This was written back in April.

" Our industry constantly flirts with burnout, it's unhealthy and ultimately unproductive. This is how you end up with bad actors taking over projects when the project maintainers burn out. "

We need to think beyond code and just paying coders/maintainers. Sustainable projects need funding for the whole ecosystem.

https://onepict.com/20240409-sustain.html

We need to consider and think about #fosssustainability

We have a threat to Fediverse Project Sustainability and to the general grassroots FOSS project funding in the EU. I'm very grateful to @hackstub for raising the alarm.

Last month @librecast signed the Open Letter asking the EU to reinstate @EC_NGI funding to Cluster 4.

I have some thoughts about the situation. Especially since we got our start with @NGIZero

#NGIZero #FOSSsustainability #NextGenerationInternet

https://onepict.com/20240813-ecosystem.html

Last week @hackstub made many of the folks in #ngizero funded projects aware of the fact that there was no space in the 2025 budget for @EC_NGI funding.

This will be a threat to #fosssustainability for many of us working in Europe in #FOSS.

@nlnet and @NGIZero has funded many #fediverse apps and other awesome software for the commons.

@ow2 has published an English language version of the open letter that @ps published last week.

https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Union_must_keep_funding_free_software_open_letter

Consider signing.

@hackstub @techcultivation I hope it does come back.

What @NGIZero and @nlnet do needs to be replicated around the world.

#fosssustainability is about more than the money. It's about the community. We have very complex issues to solve and we need many minds and many lived experiences to solve them and not do further harm to our societies.

It's been amazing to see the funded projects on the NLnet site.

https://nlnet.nl/project/

That's what we could lose if we don't get cascade funding back.

There's a massive elephant in the room when it comes to #FossSustainability . How do you recruit folks to help with building?

Just why is your community pipeline limited? Could it per chance be your public behaviour as the BDFL?

I mean you realise your community is more than just the code right?

http://onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html

If you are the kind of FOSS person who is mortally offended by developers/moderators/projects asking for money so they can eat sometime this month.

Take a good hard look at yourself. Try to look outside your bubble. Not all folks can take the time to volunteer their free time.

Maintainers should be paid. Full stop.

Exposure and "It's good for networking for your career", is exploitation and frankly, I'd like to reduce that in FOSS.

http://onepict.com/20240409-sustain.html

It's the annual fundraiser for @conservancy.

If you aren't sure why you should help to fund the Software Freedom Conservancy here are two reasons that help #fosssustainability

1. Supporting @outreachy with its increasing number of interns.

2. Hiring team members to get projects like @reproducible_builds to continue pushing the forefront of software reproducibility.

Plus donate before 2024/01/15 and the total gets matching funding.

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/