Hello everyone!
Here is the summary of the last Sustain Together . Our next call is happening Friday, 5th April, 17:00-18:00 UTC 2
Here’s a highlight of what was discussed:
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CRA: Ciarán shares his insights on the Cyber Resiliency Act’s impact on the FOSS community, draft concerns, community involvement, You can find the Podcast here
- AI: Richards to make a website, whatshouldiknowaboutthecra.com, and point it to the podcast
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Academic FOSS Foundation event last Thursday The WG plans to be more active in the coming months.
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Building a forever home for open-source projects: a New Fiscal host has been introduced, coming from Erin Schnabel - focused on the Java ecosystem. It is called the CommonHaus Foundation
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Podcasts on OSCA: A podcast with Mannie Williams highlights how the growth of the Python community in Ghana, explores Nigerian open-source vibrancy and shares insights on cultural impact. Another podcast by Subomi discusses GitLab parallels, Convoy’s Nigeria’s success and navigating open source profitability.
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FOSS Funders: Target joins the FOSS founders with 12.5k
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Huen’s study: Heun is working on a study to understand the incentives around contributing to OS projects (why do people contribute?).
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OCF stopped taking donations for all projects: Open Collective foundation has stopped receiving donation from all project following recent updates .
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Astropy paper released from Shurui Zhou and team on how to How to Sustain a Scientific Open-Source Software Ecosystem: Learning from the Astropy Project.
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Changes in US Fiscal code may be affecting “Salaries and wages including employer costs
For more information on these topics, please refer to the meeting minutes
Contributors
@RichardLitt @Anita_Ihuman Jon Starr @abbycabs @coni2k Kara Sowles @Ibiam John Junkins Sr Gerardo Lisboa