MonetizeYourCode: List of OSS project funding opportunities

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I’ve created a list of open source project monetization solutions to boost OSS sustainability and help developers find income for their work: https://monetizeyourcode.com/

This is intended to be a collaborative effort, so if you’d like to contribute or explore additional resources, we’ll send you the master spreadsheet.

Thoughts, feedback or suggestions for improvement are much appreciated.

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Hi @williamzmorgan,

Thanks for putting together that list and adding a nice user interface to it.

I haven’t checked in detail, but maybe there are some additional sources in this Awesome List: https://github.com/sustainers/awesome-oss-funding (feel free to contribute back to the list if you know of funding sources not already listed there).

Your website has a link to Twitter. Are there other ways to contribute to the list? Maybe a link to a GitHub repo or so?

Best,
Georg

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Congrats, this looks great and thanks for putting it together :green_heart:

Is there a way to propose additions to this list. I can seem, for instance, that the digital infrastructure fund from Ford and Sloan isn’t listed. And while it’s a more formal process it’s similar in spirit to the OTF which is listed https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/announcing-13m-in-funding-for-digital-infrastructure-research/

In short: ++ to @GeorgLink’s comment. Is there a repo I can PR to?

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There is a shared spreadsheet that contains many resources for the different solutions but also articles, video, etc… about open-source funding directly when you signup on the website.

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I see now. I had ignored that box because it asked for my email address :slight_smile:

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I am very interested in this topic myself. I have started an alternative to the Awesome project on Github, called delightful project. It collect curated lists that are exclusively FOSS, Open Data and Open Science related. Like for Awesome, anyone can create and maintain their own affiliate-list (either at Codeberg or elsewhere).

There are 2 lists relevant to this topic:

(See also: #1 - Candidates for list inclusion - delightful-funding - Codeberg.org)

Note: MonetizeYourCode links to a Google Sheet. So I haven’t checked it yet (I no longer use a Google account even). Check: SustainOSS and the FOSS tools that are used

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Just came across this list and figured id mention GitHub - protontypes/LibreSelery: Continuous distribution of funding to your project contributors and dependencies. Integrated into GitHub Actions, which I discovered through the sustainoss podcast episode 63.