AI search should sustain open source, not just index it
Open source funding has been a long standing issue, and something that I have been working on for almost 15 years now. Historically the sustainability model that has worked the best is:
Open source
Sustaining open source projects and the businesses around them.
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One Percent for Open Source
The open source ecosystem is the most valuable part of the software industry today. From the programming languages to the web frameworks, the operating system to the cryptography, all software companies today use open source.
Business questions I’m working on in 2018
In November 2017 there was a lovely gathering of independent business folks in Portland, Oregon called DazzleCon. Leading in to that lovely event there was an introduction thread where everyone explained their business. It caused me to really think deeply about the problems facing my two fledging but promising communities, and I wanted to record my answers here publicly.
Funding Open Source with Marketing Money
Often times as developers we see funding open source as a charity. We will give our personal money to projects we believe in. If we’re lucky, our company might have a matching program for our donations. This has proven not to be a sustainable way to support open source.
Making Read the Docs Sustainable
Today we are announcing a sustainability campaign to raise money for Read the Docs. Most of the information is available on the page there, but I wanted to shine a bit more light on my thinking about this process.