FOSS Funders (fossfunders.com)
The goal of FOSS Funders is to make it weird for companies not to support Free and Open Source software (FOSS). The strategy is to a) provide social validation by collecting logos in one place (yay logos! :-) and then probably eventually b) to develop a maturity model.
We link logos to pages where each company can give more details about their FOSS funding program. If we simply link to GHS or OC profiles, that doesn't add much value over what GitHub and Open Collective already do (or should be doing better, they need leaderboards or some such). What we're looking to encourage here is for each company to say in their own voice how they approach this topic, so that we can learn from each other and best practices can emerge.
We are specifically looking for financial donations to Open Source projects. Gift-in-kind and upstream contribution and other programs are great! To be linked on FOSS Funders you must also support projects with direct financial contributions.
Levels of link awesomeness:
- A tweet/post is fine to start.
- Even better is a blog post about why this is important to your company, how you are approaching the topic, why you picked the projects you did, what platforms you are using, maybe plans for the future, etc.
- The best is a permanent page somewhere on a domain of yours that describes your funding program in detail.
Want to add your logo? Make a PR!