Open Source Pledge

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Open Source is a restaurant. Our companies feast at the table year after year. Let's settle up.

Timeline

• September 1—website launch 👉 osspledge.com
• September 15—member onboarding deadline to participate in a ...
• October 7–November 3—major outdoor advertising campaign

Member Onboarding

Want to join the Pledge and contribute to a healthy Open Source ecosystem? We'd love to have you! 🎈

Here's how to join:

1. Donate $2,000 per full-time developer on staff to Open Source projects of your choice, and commit to doing so in future years. The projects you're donating to should meet the Open Source Definition. Of course, this includes any existing donations you've made this fiscal year. You can donate to any projects you like, but if you need help figuring out which projects you depend on, you can use a tool like Thanks.dev.
2. Create a short JSON file with your company and donation info, and host it at any URL you wish. You can check out an example JSON report or the full schema.
   • You should update this JSON file at least yearly — we'll fetch it regularly.
   • All amounts are in USD so that different reports can be compared to each other. If you're using a different currency, you should convert all amounts to the USD equivalents, using the most appropriate exchange rate.
   • We understand your fiscal year might end on various dates — you can record the end date of your fiscal year in the dateYearEnding field.
   • The logo image in urlSquareLogoWithBackground should be square and have a non-transparent background. This image should be between 400x400px and 800x800px, and should be appropriately compressed.
   • The description will be shown on your member page and ideally includes a general description of your company and some notes on your company's relationship with Open Source software.
   • Time and material contributions are optional and do not count towards the cash pledge. monetaryValueOfTime and monetaryValueOfMaterials will show up on your member page, because we acknowledge that these kinds of contributions are also important.
3. Create a pull request to add yourself to the member list by changing members.csv.
4. Include links to your branding materials in the pull request so that we can promote you! For those pledging before September 15, this means you'll be included in our major outdoor advertising campaign.

Once that's all done, you'll officially be a member. This means that your company and reports will show up on our website, and you'll be entitled to use the Open Source Pledge Member logo on your website and marketing materials if you wish. Thank you so much for joining us in contributing to a healthy Open Source ecosystem that supports maintainers.

If you have any questions, feel free to open an issue, and the relevant member of our team will get back to you.

Want to Help?

To help us build Open Source Pledge, please dive into our issues or reach out to the working group leads listed below either in issues or on Discord.

Maintainers

Open Source Pledge is not involved in any flow of funds and so we do not directly onboard maintainers. For projects that do not have existing ways to recieve funds, the following is a partial list of platforms, in alphabetical order only, that enable funding of open source projects.

• Apache Software Foundation: Incubator
• Buy Me a Coffee
• GitHub Sponsors
• IssueHunt
• Ko-fi
• LFX Mentorship
• Liberapay
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Polar
• Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)
• Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
• StackAid
• Thanks.dev
• Tidelift

Governance and Structure

We have four working groups and a steering committee comprised of working group leads.

Working Group	Lead
member outreach	@vladh
maintainer outreach	@Ethan-Arrowood
marketing & media	@selviano
design / build	@chadwhitacre
steering	@chadwhitacre