Nadia Eghbal joined the show to discuss a HUGE topic that’s near and dear to our heart – funding open source! We discussed what it takes to fund open source software development, Nadia’s current investigative journalism efforts around funding open source (funded by the Ford Foundation), venture-backed open source projects, what it means for an open source project to be in good shape, some potential solutions to provide better long-term support for open source, and we tried to determine how much the open source of the world might be worth.
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Featuring:
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Nadia Eghbal - Homepage
- Nadia Eghbal (@nayafia) on Twitter
- Nadia Eghbal on Medium
- Subscribe to Building Better Software Updates
- How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot — Medium
- Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition — Medium
- Open source infrastructure: the Q&A — Medium
- What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
- GreatSchools - Public and Private School Ratings, Reviews and Parent Community
- 500 Startups
- Slack Raises $80 Million Fund to Support Platform Strategy - Digits - WSJ
- Ruby Together
- fundingoss.com
- Ford Foundation
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