I am actually looking forward to hearing from the people here. Yeah Low-effort I know.

But I think this is an important topic to discuss, considering how much of the FOSS community is kept afloat by unpaid & volunteer-labour.

I am especially looking forward to any discussions of possible solutions

  • phneutral@feddit.org
    8·
    21 hours ago

    In Germany there is some movement on this topic:

    • The Prototype Fund (funds small FOSS projects)
    • The Sovereign Tech Agency and Sovereign Tech Fund (funds companies, communities and individual contributors that commit to several fundamental FOSS projects like Maven)
    • Zendis (the Centre for Digital Sovereignty, that is for example contracting several FOSS companies like Next Cloud to build an office software suite called Open Desk for the German administration)