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Vlad Miricioiu 🌸
@vlad.website

We just gave $1,000,000 to Open Source maintainers at @sentry.io, up from $750K last year! 🎉️ And this month the @opensourcepledge.com turns 2. Its 37 member companies have now paid $8,421,535 to the people who build the software we all rely on. Read on to find out where the money went.

blog.sentry.ioWe just gave a million dollars to Open Source maintainersSentry raised its Open Source budget from $750,000 to $1,000,000 this year. Here's why, and how we split it among maintainers and foundations.
Vlad Miricioiu 🌸
@vlad.website

$495k is being distributed by thanks.dev to the maintainers of hundreds of packages Sentry uses. $100k went to globally critical packages via ecosyste.ms Funds. The @syntax.fm team hand-picked another $100k. And I'm personally proudest of how we're supporting software supply chain security…

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Vlad Miricioiu 🌸
@vlad.website

I'm proud to help support maintainers in this way, especially after @mirandaheath.website's report on burnout in Open Source showed us that many maintainers are going through a difficult time. Thank you to every maintainer. We appreciate your work! 💜️

stewardshiplab.orgBurnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together ✸ Software Stewardship LabBurnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.