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Endowments are great models for stuff like this, the question is how much do you need and who supports it. A fair amount of SEP's operating costs are still being...

Yeah, that would require a pretty big endowment to sustainably cover an annual budget of that size ($15M for a $750K annual budget). We should take this offline sometime, but...

I really like Ruby Together, too! Agreed on wanting to put heads together to combine resources and person-power. Count me in as someone who likes to do the "business-y stuff"....

Yeah, RubyTogether makes it work because the admin = grantees. As far as I can tell, they're essentially raising money for themselves, a team of two, to work on open...

My understanding is the Board helps select which projects to work on, but the funding goes to the core RubyTogether team (Andre + David) to work on the projects themselves,...

Yes, I'm interested in facilitating that model as well. To @ericholscher's point I'd like to see funding go towards "smallish projects" - stuff that's not quite on Bundler level but...

So I just saw on the MOSS mailing list that they only received 12 applications by the round 1 deadline. Total amount requested was around $900k. I'm shocked the count...

ah, makes sense. I had seen that MOSS was intended to support both projects that benefit Mozilla and the ecosystem as a whole, but just noticed that currently they are...

I was thinking a roundtable of maybe 12 people total - 6 companies (think Heroku, Stripe, Twilio, AWS, GitHub, etc), 6 devs (core devs from big projects as well as...

BTW - this is one of the first things Wikimedia did early on to build institutional funding support for their work (invited a bunch of funders to meet them and...