Open Source Software Funding Report
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.