Funding open source (Interview)

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. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Toptal – Join the best or hire the best engineers and designers! Email Adam (adam@changelog.com) to get a personal introduction to get started with Toptal. Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free! Opbeat for Node.js – Build faster Node.js apps. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes. 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 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!