Funding open source (Changelog Interviews #193)

Nadia Eghbal joined the show to discuss a HUGE topic that’s near and dear to our heart – funding open source! We discussed what it takes to fund open source software development, Nadia’s current investigative journalism efforts around funding open source (funded by the Ford Foundation), venture-backed open source projects, what it means for an open source project to be in good shape, some potential solutions to provide better long-term support for open source, and we tried to determine how much the open source of the world might be worth.

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Featuring:

• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Nadia Eghbal - Homepage
• Nadia Eghbal (@nayafia) on Twitter
• Nadia Eghbal on Medium
• Subscribe to Building Better Software Updates
• How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot — Medium
• Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition — Medium
• Open source infrastructure: the Q&A — Medium
• What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
• GreatSchools - Public and Private School Ratings, Reviews and Parent Community
• 500 Startups
• Slack Raises $80 Million Fund to Support Platform Strategy - Digits - WSJ
• Ruby Together
• fundingoss.com
• Ford Foundation

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