There are a great number of funding sources for those in open source to consider. Any funding - taking investment or receiving a grant - comes with strings attached
A guide to identifying your projects a core goals and enable better community collaboration.
A guide to mapping out and evaluating how the specific features of your project speak to the meta goals of your project.
Open scholarship challenges systems of scholarly production, and provides an opportunity to embed anti-racism, anti-capitalism, and intersectional feminism in our scholarly communication system.
There's no one path to financial sustainability that is right for all projects.
What is fiscal sponsorship, and how does it support project in open source?
Methods to develop requirements centered around your audience.
Common approaches to ask a funder for assistance and approaching them in a way that will make success most likely.
Understanding how how funders make funding decisions can help a project understand how it fits in.
Expectations of leaders have shifted, big time.
If our goal is to tackle complex problems, then we need complex organizations with diverse leadership.
Before you start making decisions about your favorite technology stack or development platform, think about the infrastructure and trajectory of your project.
While you’re defining your approach to budgeting, you might consider the following questions early to set yourself up for success.
When considering how any project will run, you typically need to understand the roles that project members play and how decisions are made.
Defining project requirements is a good way to check what your project should do and, more importantly, why.
How do we grow a truly decentralized, inclusive, and resilient movement?
When open science, open access, or open scholarship are discussed, we encourage communities to question it.
There's no magic formula for sustainability in an open source project.
Working as an individual can be challenging, but we provide some guidance on how to grow your project and transition to a team environment as your work develops.
Considering the actions of the many players in the open scholarship space as a unified collective action – a movement -- offers an opportunity to have dramatic impact.