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All resources below are related to paid FOSS work in some way.

Overviews

These resources provide overviews of funding mechanisms for open source work. They are similar to this page, but more detailed and comprehensive.

Details

These resources provide details of particular areas of open source funding:

Internships

These resources relate to internships.

These organisations have unpaid mentoring programs:

These resources list more paid and unpaid internships:

Events

A few events are FOSS job focused or have a way of discovering FOSS jobs or relevant companies.

  • ULYSSIS Open Source Job Fair: a yearly event in Leuven, Belgium, usually in March with a diverse group of FOSS companies offering FOSS jobs (sometimes also student jobs and internships)
  • FOSDEM Job Corner: during FOSDEM (a yearly FOSSH conference at the beginning of February) there's a corner where companies can put flyers/posters for their FOSS jobs
  • DebConf Job Fair: during DebConf there's often a Job Fair component as part of sponsoring

Job aggregators

These resources aggregate jobs from various sources and present them to the public.

Generic free software jobs:

Linux-specific:

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Freelancing

When (re-)negotiating employment contracts with employers or customers, please consider the advise from ContractPatch to include some clauses; retaining copyright ownership of FOSS code, allocating some work time towards FOSS projects, ensuring ethical behaviour by employers, and more.

These organisations connect individuals with potential employers or customers.

Hosting

These organisations connect providers with people who need hosting.

Employment

When (re-)negotiating employment contracts with employers or customers, please consider the advise from ContractPatch to include some clauses; retaining copyright ownership of FOSS code, allocating some work time towards FOSS projects, ensuring ethical behaviour by employers, and more.

These organisations work primarily with free software, and often hire people.

These organisations work primarily with free hardware, and often hire people.

Grants

These organisations fund larger projects or list organisations who do.

Bounties

These resources advertise tasks backed by money contributed by multiple parties.

Patronage

These resources provide platforms for stable income through recurrent donations or other payments.

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