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Re:Funds for Open Source by Sargos on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:06AM (#26581167)
I prefer the quadratic funding method over direct corporate sponsorship as it allows more niche projects to get funded and average people to participate in the system. You can even have Google add $1million to a pool and then have individuals in the open source community distribute that out to projects based on need and utility.

For background see https://wtfisqf.com/ and Gitcoin Grants. Quadratic funding has been used to fund Ethereum public goods for a few years and it works pretty well.

Re:Funds for Open Source by alannallama on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:56PM (#26585262)
Just correcting the quadratic funding link: https://fundoss.org - launching soon!
Re:Funds for Open Source by Sargos on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:10PM (#26593786)
Is this better for this specific case? I use wtfisqf.com since it explains the mechanism in an easy to understand way.
Re:Funds for Open Source by piamancini on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:29AM (#26581461)
yes~ check this out: funoss.org coming soon (disclosure, I am Open collective co-founder)