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- European Open Digital Ecosystems proposal: A Progressive Open Source Strategy for Europe
- EU’s next long-term budget proposal: EU Sovereign Tech Fund
- The US Government RFI on OSS – Summary Report
- The US Government, Open Source Software, and Analyzing 786 Pages of Responses – Highlights
- The US Government, Open Source Software, and Analyzing 786 Pages of Responses – Results
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We’re back on the Sustain Podcast for the second time! In this episode, we discussed the details of the “Open Source Public Funding experiment” with Richard Littauer and Leslie Hawthorn. We started the conversation by reiterating our main proposal for open source funding: gradually redirecting resources from proprietary to open source software by adding an…
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Plaintext Group, developed by Schmidt Futures, is a non-partisan technology innovation policy initiative. Through the OSS Virtual Incubator Program, they aim to support innovative ideas that systematically improve the sustainability of the open source software ecosystem. Open Source Subsidy Program We applied to this incubator program by refining our “Tax incentives for companies to switch…
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Following the Sustain Summit, the SustainOSS team launched a podcast series to discuss various aspects of open source software and explore sustainability ideas, where practitioners, supporters, funders, researchers, and maintainers from the open source community share their insights. In our conversation with Richard Littauer, Pia Mancini, and Eric Berry, we discussed that although open source…
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Sustain Summit 2018 was a one-day event around the sustainability of open source. It was a full day of sessions with 100 open source enthusiasts who tackled topics such as governance, community management, succession planning, and more. We want to thank our event organizers for their fantastic efforts in hosting this event and for facilitating…