Maintainer burnout and lack of funding often lead to bugs and serious security incidents, as seen with Log4Shell , the XZ Utils backdoor , and Heartbleed . The unsustainable state of OSS financing makes critical infrastructure more fragile and puts our world at ever-growing risk.
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Solution OSS Community Endowment
Successfully used by leading universities for centuries, endowments spend only investment returns from donations to advance their causes, weathering economic and political volatility.
We are building a community-led endowment fund that leverages "open source alumni" to sustainably fund the most critical OSS projects. It is an open nonprofit, and everybody is welcome to join — every contribution matters.