We’re having our biweekly Sustain Together this week on Friday, at 1:00pm ET. The time was moved because of low attendance last week, because of a clash with the DEI working group, and because I won’t be around next week.
As always, this is a space to talk about anything new in the open source ecosystem that we think relates to sustaining open source. This week we’re hoping to dig into the RFI that @coni2k highlighted and that I’ll be talking about at the Academic WG on Thursday, too.
We had a chance to talk extensively about the proposal to establish a scalable national public fund ~ the US version of Sovereign Tech Fund. You can access the proposal draft here.
Here are the key takeaways:
Include a research item on the governance model of these public funds.
Address potential biases that might arise from using algorithms to distribute funds.
Avoid using Universal Basic Income as a similar structure/example due to its unfavorable connotations.
Explore the possibility of submitting the proposal through a US-based organization.
I’ll do my best to adjust the document to address these points. Additional feedback is always more than welcome. If you have any comments/questions/remarks, please feel free to add them to the document, or you can contact me directly. The deadline is November 8, so I plan to submit the proposal next weekend.
