OSPOlogy Follow-up: The Strategy And Ideas Behind The Spotify FOSS Fund #116
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How much vetting Spotify is doing for the projects before the funding is decided? |
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Question raised via chat: Curious about the statement that 50% of Spotify contributions to open source were outside of work hours. Does Spotify have a good way to separate work-related contributions vs. contributions made for personal reasons not tied to work with the same GitHub Username? |
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Other question: Do you earmark funding to projects or do they decide how to spend the money? |
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Question raised via chat: I have a question about the funding part. Paying someone means the receiving end needs a bank account. In some communities, this is a problem because there is no legal entity in the community/collective. Also for tax compliance. Have you considered using something as open-collective or do you vet projects on the fact they need to have an official legal entity receiving money and be tax compliant? |
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Could different teams / Business Units get a yearly budget for funding and with some guidelines do their funding? Pros / Cons of that kind of approach? |
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I like focusing on "risk reduction" as a specific sustainability goal. |
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Did you consider sponsoring projects that are already well funded/have corporate backing or focused on smaller projects? How did you get engineer feedback on projects to sponsor? Voting, poll, etc? |
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Did you consider transitive dependencies as well or just direct dependencies? |
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In general, how open are OSS projects about how much funding they already have? |
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Discuss with the community topics related to the upcoming OSPOlogy meeting:
📅 June, 1st ➡️ The Strategy And Ideas Behind The Spotify FOSS Fund
In this open space, people can:
📝 OSPOlogy Meeting Notes ➡️ g.doc &
OSPOlogy meeting 10.pdf
📝 Per Notes ➡️ TODO Group - FOSS Found Presentation
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