# Sustain Together: This Friday, 1:00pm ET

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-together-this-friday-1-00pm-et/1399>\
**Category:** 📣 Sustainer Talk\
**Created:** [October 25, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-together-this-friday-1-00pm-et/1399 "2023-10-25T20:29:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![RichardLitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/richardlitt/32/8_2.png) [@RichardLitt](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/RichardLitt)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-together-this-friday-1-00pm-et/1399/1 "2023-10-25T20:29:27Z")

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Hey all,

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.

Looking forward to seeing some of you there! Here is the agenda and notes: [Sustain Together Discussions - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b4dYI8MZiGSCnsXaqxvrM0mtdKmhj4DnuHxjs3kByig/edit#heading=h.8owll6gu4npo). Feel free to add topics.

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**Author:** ![coni2k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/coni2k/32/1336_2.png) [@coni2k](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/coni2k)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustain-together-this-friday-1-00pm-et/1399/2 "2023-10-28T11:31:27Z")

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Hello everyone!

Here’s a summary of our meeting from yesterday, in which the main topic was the US Government’s Request for Information on Open Source Software:  
[Fact Sheet: Office of the National Cyber Director Requests Public Comment on Open-Source Software Security and Memory Safe Programming Languages](https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2023/08/10/fact-sheet-office-of-the-national-cyber-director-requests-public-comment-on-open-source-software-security-and-memory-safe-programming-languages/)

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](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s3zvHgbU4B19DJIowWTURvs--WHm_Q011QvnUM1ivYw/edit?usp=sharing).

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.

You can refer to the document to see the full meeting notes - thank you, Django!:  
[Sustain Together Discussions](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b4dYI8MZiGSCnsXaqxvrM0mtdKmhj4DnuHxjs3kByig/edit?usp=sharing)

Attendees: @gvlx, Django Skorupa, @RichardLitt, @coni2k

The following community call will be after two weeks on November 10! 👋