Update from @osuosl@fosstodon.org #osuosl :
https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future-update/
Most important quote from their blog post:
"Thanks to your amazing support, our team is funded for the next year."
Please help #osuosl keep doing the excellent work they do for our communities.
https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/
Please share this post so they can get the visibility they need.
Donating is sadly a little fiddly but here: https://osuosl.org/donate/
@osuosl And still: there is no transparency on the homepage available abput the amount of donations.
It's so shady - I really don't understand how they can rise money as an "open source lab" without being transparent about the donations.
Thanks to all who supported #OSUOSL looks like OSUOSL made their budget obligations this year https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2025-May/016735.html
@osuosl will live on!
https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future-update/
Huge congrats to @ramereth and the team for securing their necessary funding.
If you or your organization were still considering supporting #OSUOSL, don't let this good news stop you. Help it thrive, not just survive!
Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy
"Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations" ... "recent changes in university funding makes our current funding model no longer sustainable."
"Unless we secure $250,000 in committed funds, the OSL will shut down later this year."
https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/
OSL provides hosting for over 500 Free and Open Source Projects from all over the world.
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live, a bit late:
* #reproducible status in website app details
* #Conversations_im & #Quicksy fix bugs
* Linwood Butterfly Adonis Blue
* #OSUOSL news
* #SECUSO updates many #PrivacyFriendlyApps
+ 1 new app
+ 112 updates
If you are reading this post, you have benefited from OSUOSL. Projects supported by them power today's Internet architecture.
We know that OSUOSL is worth saving. But we need organizations that rely on the Internet to get on the same page.
If you're in the tech industry, ask your employer to arrange an ongoing sponsorship of the program now, before it is too late. The clock is ticking.
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.
So sad to hear #OSUOSL is in a bit of a pinch...
They support so many free software projects that I work on, including #Debian and #ReproducibleBuilds and probably several more I did not even realize!
Please support those that support so many others if you can and spread the word!
With the latest funding predicament at #osuosl, I can't help but wonder how much money the public Oregon State University "invests" annually in college sports programs and infrastructure.
Their financial report curiously doesn't get into that much detail, but I bet it's significantly more than $0.25m.
I sure hope we can all rally around OSUOSL and get them the funding they need to continue their invaluable work.
#fedora has a server hosted there that provides a number of vm's as well as a power10 instance for package maintainers to test their packages on power10.
They have touched so many open source communities!
If you have a way to help them, please do!
Various #OpenZFS resources are hosted at @osuosl in Corvallis, Oregon and their funding is threatened.
They host many critical open source projects and we thank them for their excellent service.
Please consider a donation to the #OSUOSL and talk to your organization about supporting their important work.
The beacons are lit, @osuosl calls for aid: 
Oregon State University Open Source Lab will shut down this year if funding is not met.
Among countless other open source projects, OSL supports Rocky Linux by hosting our ppc64le and s390x build environments.
Please consider donating to #OSUOSL. Talk to your organizations about the open source software they depend on that in turn depends on OSL, and ask them to consider donating.
The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University has been a strong supporter of F/OSS for decades, and has provided a home for source code, distribution, and development for hundreds of projects. They need help now and they need it badly.
https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/
Please distribute widely.
Libera.Chat would not be what we are today, if not for OSL's sponsorship of the network before us.
OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a very long time. They support projects we use, learn from, and contribute to. Many of these projects call Libera.Chat home.
Nonprofits, businesses, governments, and you all depend on projects OSL sponsors. If not directly, then somewhere upstream.
OSL is worth saving.
@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now their future is in jeopardy 
We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects! 
OSL has been a sponsor of OFTC for a very long time, and they need help.
OFTC and many other projects sincerely appreciate their crucial support over the years. We know that the open source ecosystem would not be thriving today if it were not for their work and contributions.
It is time to step up and keep them around for future generations of open source projects!
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