When I tell people about grants they could get to help fund work on open source software projects, sometimes they are surprised because they didn't know such grants existed. I share:
- sample foundations and funders (such as OpenHumans, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NLNet, and Comcast) who want to fund open source software projects, and how much they're paying out
- a quick case study on how the Python Software Foundation got funding from Open Tech Fund to improve security, accessibility, and localization for PyPI
- key steps in figuring out a good project idea, budgeting, hiring, and submitting
- how your volunteer groups can follow the lead of the new Project Funding Working Group at the PSF
As a consultant with grantwriting experience, I'll end the session with an offer to help folks with some free initial research to help them look at funding options. I also hope to turn followup questions-and-answers into material for a followup blog post, and incorporate it into the book I'm writing on maintainership.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:Most or all of the session will be recorded, so the number of participants will not change that part of the session. If there are very few participants, we'll run a very open and relaxed oral Q&A. If there are 5+ participants, I'll ask for questions via text chat and answer them orally.
Harihareswara is a project manager and programmer. She has managed improvements to pip thanks to MOSS funding. She lives in New York City and founded Changeset Consulting in 2015.