A collection of publicly available prospectuses for Free and Open Source Foundations, Events, and Projects
My goal is to collect sponsorship prospectuses that have been used in the FOSS Community for the past 20 years.
Free and Open-Source Software depends heavily on the community participation. One way companies participate in the community is by sponsoring foundations, events, and open source projects. But we don't have a good historical overview of how spending and funding has evolved over time.
Having all of this information together in one place can serve several purposes:
- Inspiration for people who are trying to put together a prospectus for their own efforts;
- Reference material for funding research initiatives;
- Transparency;
If you have or know where to find a prospectus, we invite your to submit a PR to add the file to this repo. Please review the CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to contribute to this repository.
Check the Prospectuses Wanted file for a list of things we're looking for. Check Issues for open issues for missing prospectuses.
For the purposes of Hacktoberfest, we will only mark a PR "hacktoberfest-accepted" if that PR adds a new prospectus to the repo, or if it addresses an issue with the "hacktoberfest" label. PRs that make non-substantive changes to project documentation will be closed and marked as spam.
We claim no ownership of the material in this repo, which has been collected from public sources and is made available for research purposes only. Any copyrights related to the prospectuses are the property of their respective owners.