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Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by danieldk on Monday August 01, 2016 @06:50AM (#12201396)
There are some organisations/groups which seem to be effective in actually paying people.

There is a group of Debian developers that collect funding and pay Debian developers/maintainers to maintain LTS for Debian releases:

https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html

https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/

The FreeBSD Foundation also hires developers to do actual work:

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.h...

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/projects/#curre...

However, I think such initiatives are typically highly underfunded. Like OpenSSH/{Open,Libre}SSL/GnuPG, everyone uses the software, few companies/individuals chip in in a significant way.

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Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by snassar on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:35AM (#12201598)
Getting a copy of "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" also helps support Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas keep doing good work.

I purchased a recent copy of the book (covering Debian 8), and while there are things I'd like more details about, I find it a good resource to have on hand.

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