Am 19. November 2024 wurde der »Open Source Software Funding Report 2024« veröffentlicht und ich möchte dazu zwei Punkte festhalten.

Scale

  • Organizations contribute $7.7 billion USD annually to open source software3
  • The majority (86%) of contribution value is employee labor.

Lessons learned

  • Leave “fingerprints” on your organization’s OSS efforts to help managers, researchers, and other observers more easily collect this information.
  • Empower employees to self report contributions made under the organization’s banner.
  • Make OSS contribution part of your monitoring pipeline by conducting brief, regular surveys within your organization to collect key metrics.
  • Consider sharing data to public OSS funding index.