Although many modern applications rely on some open source components to realize related functions, open source developers who use love power generation often get into trouble In order to mitigate this risk, we have seen several projects aimed at maintaining the healthy development of the open source supply chain in the past few months - such as Alpha Omega jointly launched by Google and Microsoft Through direct docking with project maintainers, this cooperation will focus on finding newly discovered errors in the open source code base.
At the same time, spotify also launched a 100000 euro ($109000) fund to support small "independent" project defenders.
Now, following the $27 million fund-raising campaign launched earlier, open source backend as a service (baas) Company appwrite has also launched a special fund for open source project maintainers.
Eldad fux, founder and CEO of the company, is accepting VentureBeat The interview said:
Open source has promoted the development of world technology, but many companies that benefit from it have made little contribution to the open source community.
As a company born of open source, appwrite understands the importance of building a healthy ecosystem for related technologies.
It is reported that appwrite, founded in 2019, is committed to providing application program interfaces (APIs) for the majority of open source developers, so as to provide corresponding support for the underlying infrastructure including user authentication, security, API management, file storage, database, etc.
As an open source product, enterprises can try to deploy appwrite anywhere they want to avoid being kidnapped by any specific ecosystem. It is for this reason that Eldad fux decided to create a new OSS fund open source software fund.
Despite the relatively small scale of OSS fund open source software fund, its first year allocation reached US $50000.
Those open source project maintainers who lay the foundation for today's digital infrastructure but lack financial support will have the opportunity to be recognized and funded by OSS fund.
In addition, according to appwrite's annual financial situation, OSS fund still has room for further growth.
Eldad fux added that OSS fund is committed to funding about 20 open source projects (an average of about $2500) in its first year.
We are seeking to support various maintainers and projects that can have a technical impact, and will give priority to projects maintained by individuals and not well supported by other funds or organizations.
We hope to provide this way to raise public awareness and encourage more enterprises and individuals to participate in the work to help make the open source ecosystem more sustainable.
As for the allocation and decision-making of funds, Eldad fux said that appwrite will set up a committee composed of internal team members and members of the wider open source community. The evaluation criteria include the popularity of open source projects, technical influence, community development, and existing financial status.
Interested open source developers can click here to apply for appwrite OSS Fund (portal) 。