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Links
Making Open Source economy more viable with dual license collectives
Sovereign Tech Fund
"This is a pretty interesting report about setting up a sovereign tech fund to fund OSS work, in particular in Germany and in the EU."
Open Source Software Virtual Incubator - mini-grants up to $10K or larger ($100K+) grants
Plaintext Group (from Schmidt Futures) is launching the Open Source Software Virtual Incubator.
Articles
Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps
🤦♂️ 🤬 😢 Adam says it best ⤵️
30 startups that show how open source ate the world in 2021
A look at some of the open source startups that gained traction in 2021, revealing where the world is looking to leverage the power of OSS.
We interviewed
Elastic CEO reflects on Amazon spat, license switch, and the principles of open source
Elastic cofounder and CEO Shay Banon discusses the Elasticsearch open source license switch, and what being "free and open" really means.
When I (Justin) was working at a startup in ~2011, we started to use Elasticsearch way before it became a company. Shay a.k.a Kimchy would always be there to answer any questions we had in IRC. While I'm an OSI purest when it comes to licensing, it's hard for me to forget all the free help he gave us back then.
Podcasts
Sustain Episode 103: Samuel Wein on OpenMS and Mass Spectrometry
Samuel Wein talks about OpenMS and Mass Spectrometry, its revenue streams, and training programs.
Sustain Open Source Design Episode 18: Collaboration Between Designers and Developers
Lucie Wu, Saptak, and Sadie share about how design and development interact with each other, and the challenges they faced during the collaboration.
