Open Source Pledge ⇌

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Open Source Pledge is a group of companies with a shared commitment to paying the maintainers of the Open Source software we all consume. https://opensourcepledge.com

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Job of the Week; Railway; Community Engineer
screen shot of tweet by Josh Cohenzadeh @jschnz Built a Claude Code skill to find the open source projects that your repo relies on and give you links to help fund them (Screenshot) Why Tribute? Your project depends on open source software maintained by volunteers and small teams. These maintainers often struggle to fund their work, yet their code powers your applications. The problem: Finding funding links for your dependencies is tedious. Package registries don't surface this information well, and manually checking each project's GitHub is time-consuming. Tribute solves this by automatically: Reading your dependency files Researching funding links from FUNDING.yml files and web searches Verifying every link actually works before showing it to you Install Copy the skill file to your Claude Code commands directory: curl -o ~/.claude/commands/tribute.md \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jshchnz/tribute/main/tribute.md
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Screen cap from Spider-Man (2002). Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. He has a can of cranberry sauce in his hand. The caption reads, “I had to beat an old lady with a stick to get these cranberries.”
a rotating jar of Cranberry sOSS, the only Thanksgiving comestible that supports Open Source maintainers
A jar of cranberry sauce labeled “Cranberry Soss” sits on a smooth surface surrounded by whole cranberries. The jar has a beige label with a red badge and an illustration of cranberries. A red button below the jar reads “Order now for $13.37.”
“In the long term, this is unsustainable for an unpaid volunteer like me. … In the long run, putting such demands on OSS maintainers without compensating them is detrimental. … It’s even more unlikely with Google Project Zero, the best white-hat security researchers money can buy, breathing down the necks of volunteers.”
Job of the Week: Val Town, Growth Engineer
Text clipping from blog post: At Antithesis, for instance, we rely on open source for everything from our internal Nix tooling to core components of our product like our deterministic hypervisor, a fork of FreeBSD. Maintaining these tools requires countless hours of work from talented, dedicated developers worldwide. We believe supporting this community is not only the right thing to do, it’s also a vital way of ensuring our dependencies are, well, dependable! Writing quality code takes time, money, and skill, and we believe in supporting the open source community with all of them.
Nasdaq Tower in Times Square NYC. The tower (which is covered in LEDs) reads NASDAQ CELEBRATES ONE YEAR OF THE OPEN SOURCE PLEDGE AND THE COMPANIES WHO PAY MAINTAINERS Below the text are all the member logos of companies who are members. The full list of member companies can be found here: https://opensourcepledge.com/members/
Fork first, ask questions later At Sanity, we had a problem. Sanity Studio runs on styled-components. So does our UI library. Thousands of components, all dependent on a library whose own maintainer says not to use. We had three choices: Rewrite everything (months of work, we're actually doing this) Accept degrading performance (not happening) Fix it ourselves
Job of the Week: Browserbase, Developer Advocate Lead
Job of the Week: HeroDevs, Senior Software Engineer (Python)
Job of the Week: Antithesis, Developer Relations Lead
GitBook is a platform that lets users collaboratively build and publish beautiful documentation. Are you an experienced Typescript/Node developer looking to contribute to a product that has an impact on millions of users, while mentoring engineers so they can do their best work? Then consider dropping GitBook a line — you'd be working for a company that pioneers sustainable Open Source by paying the maintainers it depends on.
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Bolt are looking for an engineer to advance web computing by working on WebContainer, the first-ever in-browser WebAssembly-based operating system. The job is remote and gives you a high degree of autonomy. But more than that, you'd be getting paid to be an Open Source contributor to projects such as Node.js, Next.js and others. Sound good? Apply now.
JOB OF THE WEEK: Astral; Software Engineer, Build Systems & Linkers
A screenshot from the Maintainer Month website, showing the first schedule item, which is “Open Path Show Launch”.
Vlad-Stefan Harbuz; Speaking at Alt Ctrl Org, June 6th, Basel (CH); “Collective Governance and How to Fund It”
“We were a very comfortable, small boutique agency; we were doing work for incredibly interesting companies.” says Simen. “At that very specific time, the UN wanted us to work on an interactive visualization. We had to decide: are we gonna do this amazingly interesting, well-paid thing… or are we building this system instead?”
A screenshot of the Open Source Pledge website, showing $1,994,146 paid over the past year and logos of some member companies
Two stickers, one of a hand putting dollar bills into a computer, and one saying “Open Source Pledge”.