Resources
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.
- nayafia/lemonade-stand: A handy guide to financial support for open source
- ralphtheninja/open-funding: A guide for researching ways of funding open source projects
- beeware/paying-the-piper: A project for discussing ways to fund open source development
- PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization: list of monetization approaches for FOSS
Details
These resources provide details of particular areas of open source funding:
Internships
These resources relate to internships.
- ESA: Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS)
- FSF: Internships (not paid by FSF but potential funding from other sources)
- FSFE: Internships
- GNOME: Internships
- Google: Summer of Code (GSoC)
- Google: Season of Docs (GSoD)
- GirlScript: Summer of Code (GSSoC)
- Igalia: Coding Experience Program (CEP)
- ISCAS: Open Source Promotion Plan (OSPP)
- Linux Foundation: LFX Mentorship
- OMP: Internships
- Outreachy: Internships for underrepresented people in tech
- Rail Girls: Summer of Code (SoC)
- Software Heritage Internships
- X.Org: Endless Vacation of Code (EVoC)
- FICCI: XR Open Source Fellowship Program (XROS)
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:
- FOSSJobs (this project!)
- FSF: Free software jobs (RSS feed) (monthly fee to list jobs)
- Python Job Board
- Open Source Design jobs
- Open Source JobHub (fee to list jobs)
- "Open Source" at NODESK Jobs (fee to list jobs)
- "Open Source" FlexJobs (paid subscription required to view jobs) (annual fee to list more than a few jobs)
- The monthly "Who's hiring" Threads on Hacker News sometimes contain Open Source project jobs
- Digital Rights Job Board
- RISC-V Careers
- GNOME-Related Jobs
Linux-specific:
Generic job aggregators filter
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.
- Blender Market
- coreboot consultants
- Debian consultants
- GlusterFS Professional Support
- Linux Lancers
- Linux Vendor Firmware Service
- LWN writers
- Mailman services
- Moodle Partners
- Octave support
- PostgreSQL Professional Services
- PowerDNS Certified Consultants
- Ringer
- Samba support
- XMPP service providers
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.
- Amarula Solutions
- Amazon
- asymptotic
- Bareos
- Baylibre
- Bitwarden
- Blender
- Bootlin
- Calyx Institute
- Canonical
- Catalyst
- Chef
- Codethink
- CodeWeavers
- Collabora
- Creative Commons
- Credativ
- CZ.NIC
- /e/ Foundation
- Endless OS
- Endocode
- Foundation for Public Code
- Gradle
- Guardian Project
- Igalia
- Instaclustr
- Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)
- Klara
- LanguageTooler
- Linaro (RSS feed)
- Linutronix
- Linux Foundation
- LulzBot
- MapBox
- Matomo
- Mattermost
- Moodle HQ
- Mozilla
- Nexedi
- Nextcloud
- NV Access
- Ondsel
- Open Collective
- OpenCraft
- OpenNebula Systems
- Open Tech Strategies
- Pengutronix
- Protocol Labs
- Puppet
- Qt Company
- RedHat
- Rust Foundation
- Sangoma
- Software Heritage
- Sentry
- SUSE
- Sysmocom
- Tails
- Thunderbird
- Tor Project
- Univention
- Wire
- Wikimedia Foundation (Twitter feed)
These organisations work primarily with free hardware, and often hire people.
Grants
These organisations fund larger projects or list organisations who do.
- Amateur Radio Digital Communications
- Epic MegaGrants
- Open Technology Fund
- Renewable Freedom
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Essential Open Source Software for Science
- Clojurists Together
- Comcast Innovation Fund
- FreeBSD Foundation
- Freexian Debian Project Funding
- Libre Endowment Fund
- Linux Australia
- Mozilla Open Source Support Awards
- NLnet
- Plaintext Group Open Source Software Virtual Incubator
- Prototype Fund
- Python Software Foundation Funding Working Group
- QGIS
- RIPE NCC
- Ruby Together
- Sovereign Tech Fund
- Spotify FOSS Fund
- Wikimedia
Bounties
These resources advertise tasks backed by money contributed by multiple parties.
- Bountysource
- Cppcheck
- FOSS Factory
- Ghostscript
- Gitcoin
- Google Security Patch Rewards
- huntr
- IssueHunt
- OBS Studio
- Rysolv
- SerenityOS
- urllib3
- Xiph
Patronage
These resources provide platforms for stable income through recurrent donations or other payments.