Re:I'm working on open source full time
by david_allison on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:40PM
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> Companies pledge to donate $X USD amount per year per software engineer (SE) to a foundation (or whatever legal entity).
The tides are slowly changing
Indeed have a fund[0] for this, and other companies seem to be taking the same approach. The disadvantage is that funds are restricted to projects used by the business, therefore this focuses more on infrastructure and development tooling rather than end user applications.
Google has an Open Source Peer Bonus[1], where a Google Employee can nominate external OSS contributors to receive a payment
The tides are slowly changing
Indeed have a fund[0] for this, and other companies seem to be taking the same approach. The disadvantage is that funds are restricted to projects used by the business, therefore this focuses more on infrastructure and development tooling rather than end user applications.
Google has an Open Source Peer Bonus[1], where a Google Employee can nominate external OSS contributors to receive a payment
[0] http://opensource.indeedeng.io/FOSS-Contributor-Fund/
[1] https://opensource.google/docs/growing/peer-bonus/