@Edent__dup_2944@mastodon.social
2026-03-14 12:35 UTC
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@revk@toot.me.uk 2026-03-14 12:45
@Edent@mastodon.social For my #Faikout project (www.faikout.uk) the best way to financially support the project is buy the Faikout boards I sell. There are others that make and sell (big in Australia), and there are a small number of s/w contributors to the project who could, if they wish, make and sell to get some money. But the money for the selling of the boards is clearly for the person making the boards, and so, I hope, avoids any possible argument. I agree it is tricky though. [nice lego]
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@hdv@front-end.social 2026-03-14 13:21
@Edent@mastodon.social cc @marlenabcn@mastodon.social
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@prushforth@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 14:14
@Edent@mastodon.social Great subject, and good advice. We also did full procurement on open source feature development, which although probably not the best way to generally support a project, may help the developers keep the servers running.
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@bobthomson70@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 14:43
@Edent@mastodon.social I’m sure there other ways to help support open source dev too, for example: https://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html#:~:text=For%20non%2Dsponsorship%20corporate%20contributions,Google%20Pay%2C%20and%20Microsoft%20Pay.
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@jasperamorgan@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 21:20
@Edent@mastodon.social perhaps there could be a role for Public service commissioning. OpenSource maintainers could effectively be treated like charities for the purposes of funding. It would, however, require an act of parliament - maybe that kills the idea already.
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@Gina@fosstodon.org 2026-03-15 08:30
@Edent@mastodon.social a familiar problem, we're seeing the same thing in the Dutch gov.