Explore and enable options for funding community projects, teams, working groups, and contributors

[gusaus]

Ideas/action items

Open Source partnerships and collaboration

Explore partnership/collaboration with The WP Community Collective and other organizations in the Open Collective/Open source ecosystem that support and fund individual contribution and community-based initiatives.

• Open Source Collective
• Open Collective Foundation
• Sustain
• CHAOSS
• FOSS Contributors

Leverage and extend Funding platforms and programs

• Adopt and integrate Open Collective #24
• Leverage and Extend the FundOSS fundraising format #22
• GitHub Sponsors
• Gitcoin Grants
• Patreon
• Tidelift

Reference/resources

• Open Source and how we sustain ourselves (WordPress.org Project)
• Introduction to the economic pillar of sustainability (Sustain WP podcast)
• Sustaining and Growing WordPress through Open Collective (Making WordPress Slack)

[meeware]

Links to investment and other organisation with a focus on sustainability (need a LOT more of these!):

• Sustainable Ventures: London based VC, incubator, and consultancy focussed on sustainability. @meeware has contact there. Green Web Foundation are alumni
• Climate Aligned - service matching investors to sustainable investments. @meeware has contact there.