21 stories tagged open-source-funding, newest first.
98 points by firesteelrain | 56 comments
Reuters article reporting that the PHP Foundation is under-funded with only one full-time staff member, according to its director; page showed a device verification screen.
761 points by ejohnso49 | 394 comments
PHP Foundation blog post on a PHP security release fixing two critical RCE vulnerabilities, how they were found, the disclosure leak, and how PHP security work is being strengthened.
340 points by AshleysBrain | 138 comments
Servo project blog post looking back on one year of its first donation-funded developer role for the Servo browser engine.
750 points by tosh | 249 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing his family's pledge of another $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, bringing their total to $700,000.
480 points by vidyesh | 96 comments
Blender Foundation press release announcing Netflix Animation Studios has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron.
714 points by qwertyforce | 265 comments
Tweet by Logan Kilpatrick announcing that the Google AI Studio team is now a sponsor of the Tailwind CSS project.
480 points by haunter | 204 comments
MonoGame blog post announcing ConcernedApe, the Stardew Valley developer, as a new sponsor of the open-source C# game framework.
1091 points by CrankyBear | 795 comments
The New Stack article on FFmpeg developers publicly urging Google to fund the project or stop sending AI-found bug reports, sparking a debate about open source sustainability.
378 points by derekcollison | 109 comments
Synadia blog post announcing that Synadia and TigerBeetle are pledging $512K to the Zig Software Foundation to support systems programming.
379 points by robin_reala | 59 comments
Igalia announcement dated Oct 9, 2025 about Sovereign Tech Fund investment in the Servo web engine for accessibility, embeddability, and sustainability.
679 points by jgrahamc | 418 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing its sponsorship of the Ladybird browser project and the Omarchy Linux distribution to support the open web.
324 points by AndrewDucker | 202 comments
GitHub issue in the WiX Toolset repository proposing an Open Source Maintenance Fee to fund ongoing maintenance of the project.
370 points by cperciva | 121 comments
Colin Percival's blog post reflecting on a year of Amazon-sponsored work on FreeBSD, including EC2 support and release engineering duties.
422 points by edent | 192 comments
NLnet Foundation announcement that 42 free and open source projects were selected for funding in the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund.
327 points by nanna | 81 comments
Homepage of Liberapay, a recurrent donations platform for funding creators and projects.
337 points by lorey | 73 comments
Blog post by Konstantin Vinogradov describing how he used GitHub Sponsors and PyPI data to algorithmically donate over $5000 to open source maintainers.
363 points by joice | 96 comments
Blog post by Zerodha CTO Kailash Nadh announcing FLOSS/fund, a $1M-per-year fund for free and open source projects, with an invitation to apply.
469 points by tosh | 142 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing that he and his wife pledged $300,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, and explaining why they support it.
477 points by bo0tzz | 222 comments
Jellyfin project leader's forum announcement asking the community to stop donating, citing $24,000 in the bank and over three years of runway.
364 points by cperciva | 167 comments
Colin Percival's blog post explaining that Tarsnap has donated $274,482 (over 2^18 dollars) to open source since 2009, mostly to the FreeBSD Foundation.
1025 points by jjdeveloper | 457 comments
Announcement that htmx was accepted into the first class of the GitHub Open Source Accelerator, with plans to start htmx 2.0 and recommendations of fellow projects.