Episode 1: Funding Open-Source Projects

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Panel

Pia Mancini

Richard Littauer

Eric Berry

Jon Schlinkert

Episode Summary

This new addition to the Devchat.tv podcast family is about
software sustainability, open source projects funding and
software maintenance. The panelists introduce themselves and
their roles and backgrounds in software sustainability. The
panelists also mention that 57% of all software built is
open-source and the economic value of open source is over 360
billion dollars so it is crucial to keep developers who maintain
open-source projects from burning out. That being said
open-source projects have difficulty accessing funding. The
panelists talk about efforts that have been made to combat that
such as opencollective.com. They then talk about some of the
other topics the panelists plan to cover are and invite the
audience to recommend topics they would like to hear more about
on open-source sustainability.
Links


https://www.zdnet.com/article/its-an-open-source-world-78-percent-of-companies-run-open-source-software/


https://www.blackducksoftware.com/download/2018-open-source-security-and-risk-analysis-infographic


https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2015/oct/14/measuring-value-open-source/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTiyh47zFps

tidelift.com

opencollective.com

maintainer.io

codefund.io

https://discourse.sustainoss.org/

Picks

Jon Schlinkert:


https://tidelift.com



Eric Berry:


https://adventure.land



Richard Littauer:



https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/palaces-for-the-people/



Pia Mancini:


https://www.brainpickings.org/figuring/


https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/21/702209976/can-inuit-moms-help-me-tame-my-3-year-olds-anger