Funding for OpenSustain.tech

protontypes / open-sustainable-technology

A directory and analysis of the open source ecosystem in the areas of climate change, sustainable energy, biodiversity and natural resources. https://docs.getgrist.com/gSscJkc5Rb1R/OpenSustaintech

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Funding for OpenSustain.tech #285

Open Ly0n opened 9 months ago

Ly0n commented 9 months ago

So far, we have not tried to find funding for the project through donations / crowdfunding. For the next year we should try to get some funding. This will allow us to kick off additional projects like ClimateTriage.com, pay external costs if needed and finance the travel cost to allow contributors to speak at conferences. Possible options are:

LFX Crowdfunding as suggested by @dbrownlf
Open Source Collective as suggested by @RichardLitt
GitHub Sponsors.

fkromer commented 9 months ago

@Ly0n There was some other sponsoring project as well. Unfortunatelly I cannot remember anymore where I've seen it. Probably the pydantic people thought about using it/are using it.

fkromer commented 4 months ago

@Ly0n The project is https://polar.sh and has quite a few cool features.

Ly0n commented 4 months ago

@fkromer Thanks for the hint. This could also be relevant for next service we gone build on top of OST: #527

fkromer commented 3 months ago

@Ly0n polar.sh supports the following monetarization approaches:

Donations
Monthly Subscriptions
Annual Subscriptions
Upvoting and funding of GitHub issues. E.g. strawberry-graphql GitHub issues -> polar.sh strawberry-graphql Dashboard.

One can motivate people to subscribe by giving access to private repositories, giving access to discord, ... (more here) as well.