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Convincing 'the powers that be' in companies to sustainably support open source is not easy. We acknowledge that there are many heroes inside companies who are fighting that, and we want to support them. This is an open toolkit for sustainers making the case for their companies to support their open source stack.

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This is an email that Vincent Voyer and Josh Dzielak from Algolia used to start a conversation internally about supporting Open Source. They kindly agreed to share it. <3

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BackYourStack

An easy way to surface your organization's dependencies and detect which ones are seeking funding.

Thanks for providing this great service! Thanks for all your contributions to OSS 🙌 — JS.coach (@_jscoach)

💸Small yet significant step in the community. Today I could paid contributor for a significant contribution to MST from our !

👏 Tnx to & all other sponsors!

🎉It works even when you're not — Michel Weststrate (@mweststrate)

- code

- funding

- community

- deployment & domains

& - CI

Seriously amazing! 🙏— Devon Govett (@devongovett)

Flights and hotel booked! That means I'm ready for ✅

Really looking forward to meet all these nice people and especially I'm very happy to meet and @_achopin for the first time.

Thanks a million to , who sponsored the ticket through 🙏— Alexander Lichter (@TheAlexLichter)

This is why we use :-). FT Maintainers (non-single-co backed) + Contributor Pool. — SEAN LARKIN 廖肖恩 (@TheLarkInn)

Depends on your budget. We're around $10k/y, and we pay out ~5-10% of avail. budget for each large contribution, and small token payments for fixed issues. Federated/open ownership of the books is why we are happy with .— Goose (@RickCasey)

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Sponsoring a project is deeper then money, but partnerships working together for common good. — SEAN LARKIN 廖肖恩 (@TheLarkInn)

We strongly believe that someday we could fully focus on to make world better 🚀🔥

👍 enjoy using ? 🙌 ask your company to support us: 🎁 — NestJS (@nestframework)

Discover the Cheat Sheet made with our new official partner! 🙌— Alexandre Chopin (@IamNuxt)

Woohoo we've just hit 500 followers! Thanks for being our 500th! (& Extra special thanks to all our contributors: we've now got an annual budget of over £1000/year! ☺️) Still a long way to go to & create but 2 good milestones!— Better Media (@bettermediauk)

. is backing on ! They have super cheap machines and you can get $10 worth of credit through this link: — caarlos0.dev (@caarlos0)

Today we take our next step in open source sustainability: is donating $50,000 to open source projects via ! ✨🌟✨🌟✨— Joe Lencioni (@lencioni)

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