FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

* Fine print: For successful projects only, and up to $100K per year per project

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From their FAQ:

> Currently, our focus is on supporting existing, widely used, and impactful projects to specifically contribute to their sustainability. Very new projects or projects with minimal usage are not considered for the time being.

> A project can apply for funding of up to $100,000 in one year. To keep the logistics and operational overhead of the fund reasonable, we accept requests in denominations of a minimum of $10,000 and multiples of $25,000 thereafter.

https://floss.fund/faq/

A better title: Floss/fund: Up to $100K/year for popular open source projects

Still admirable though...

Charitable giving ought to have less conditions than an investment. Of course, the opposite is true.

> Charitable giving ought to have less conditions than an investment.

You should give a "why" with your statement.

Agreed. Isn’t it better to donate to something that’s actually used than something that might have an audience of 1? It’d be nice to see donations to newer projects gaining momentum, but they get to choose how to hand out the cash. I just hope it’s not projects that are already exceptionally well funded (it’d be kinda ridicous if they gave $100k for Linux, for example).

I was curious how they might handle something that isn't ready yet, but in the process of being built. But that answers it, it's not eligible. Oh well :( Plenty of good open source out there deserving as well.

I want to know what their criteria for “widely used” is.

you're describing a startup with no business model.

So while this effort is commendable, it will do nothing to help open source projects that are good, but just have not become popular yet.

It makes you wonder how many projects are out there which have tremendous potential but still lack a critical feature or two that a bit of funding would help bring to fruition.

Thanks—we've taken the dollars out of the title above.

You seem to be mistaking that a startup is a business and an open source project doesn't need to be. One can simply want to build something and give the code away for free because the world benefits far more from that than trying to monetize it as a business and having fewer people use it.