[danielsiders]

Cool. We got the first 120k from I think around 12 companies. It followed close to a power law distribution, very long tail.

Our strategy was to encourage developers to talk to their bosses rather than contribute individually which we think but can’t prove worked well. Basically we tried to get on calls with CTOs and CEOs and explain that this would help the company.

[forgotmypw17]

Is there anything you would've done differently during that campaign?

Did the money come from the companies' tech budgets?

Was it a one lump sum pre-payment or periodic payments? Were there any strings like deliverables attached?

Hope this is not too much to ask, I'm really interested in the process.

I am developing something almost completely the opposite -- a website platform designed only for small-scale deployments by individuals and small communities, with purposeful mechanisms to limit/control growth, and for now deliberately without any finances, fregan.

Recently I have been coming to terms with the idea that I may get a lot further if I attract outside help, but currently I don't have much to pay with, and I've not made it easy for someone to just jump in and start contributing.

I am learning a lot from your answers.

[danielsiders]

Honestly there aren’t a lot of products that were funded this way so I can’t point you to specific resources.

In our case the funding came prepaid with no strings attached. Can’t speak to where in their budgets the funds were allocated from.

I think we should build an ecosystem where companies support open source projects that benefit their companies with great ROI. Unfortunately I don’t know how we get there yet.

There are so many different funding models now for different things (https://humanipo.app/ for example) that there must be a good answer. We should all work together and try harder to find what the best option is.