Joining the Open Source Pledge(blog.val.town)

31 pointsby stevekrouse2 anni fa7 comments

blog.val.town

https://blog.val.town/blog/oss/

8 comments

ezekg2 anni fa

For some reason, I remember there being revenue or employee number requirements for participation, but I may be misremembering? Perhaps it was discussed on GH [0] but never put in place. I'll admit I wasn't following the conversation too closely but I was trying to stay in the loop.

All I can see on the website [1] right now is:

> The minimum to participate is $2,000 per full-time employed developer per year.

Is that it?

[0]: https://github.com/opensourcepledge/osspledge.com/issues/45

[1]: https://osspledge.com

whit5372 anni fa

Yes that's it, no minimum company size to participate. The reason to use $/dev as a metric is that it gives us some hope of comparing across companies of different sizes, though we do acknowledge different cohorts on e.g. the Members page.

knowitnone2 anni fa

This is pretty awesome. Thank you Val Town. This should be a tax-deductable/non-profit type of donation. Anybody experienced in this and know how that can work?

Asparagirl2 anni fa

There's an established organization called Open Collective that can let you support various open source software projects, with the organization acting as a legal and fiscal sponsor. It's not a 501c3 but it is a 501c6.

I use the platform to support tools I like or use, like Nuxt or Tabula: https://opencollective.com/nuxtjs

You can also support some groups that use open data philosophies or methods but aren't necessarily or primarily building software, like ArchiveTeam: https://opencollective.com/archiveteam

ezekg2 anni fa

afaik, it depends on if the org you're donating to is a registered tax-deductible non-profit. I've personally never been able to deduct donations to individual open source maintainers, even if the donation was in the thousands, but maybe I just need a new accountant.

Destiner2 anni fa

great initiative, i wish larger companies would join

elric2 anni fa

I suspect many larger companies simply pay developers to contribute features. This is orders of magnitude easier than trying to make a donation as a corporation without getting an invoice in return.

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