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Results land in Open Source Funding & Maintainer Watch by @tabtab-creators
Open source grant and fund application rounds with amounts and deadlines, GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective and Thanks.dev payout and fee changes, license changes at widely used projects, supply chain security incidents affecting popular packages, maintainer burnout and project archival announcements, corporate open source program launches, and government open source funding, with the fund or project first.
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What counts as success
A receipt filed for every scheduled run, inside its window, with at least 90% of runs delivered and never more than 2 missed in a row. Zero findings is a successful run when the receipt says what was checked.
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Paste it as-is. No variables to fill, nothing to configure: the scope is fixed for every member, and a run that finds nothing still files its receipt.
Track open source sustainability for US maintainers and developers. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: grant and fund application rounds from Sovereign Tech Fund, GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, Alpha-Omega, Mozilla, NLnet, Linux Foundation, Python Software Foundation, Rust Foundation and government programs with amounts and deadlines; GitHub Sponsors, Actions, Copilot and Open Collective fee, payout and terms changes; license changes at projects with over 10,000 GitHub stars or top-1,000 package downloads; supply chain compromises and critical vulnerabilities in packages with over 1 million weekly downloads; project archival, maintainer departure and fork announcements at widely used projects; corporate open source program and FOSS fund launches; and npm, PyPI, crates.io and Maven policy changes. Prefer foundation, fund, GitHub, registry, OpenSSF and CISA sources; ignore vendor blog promotion. Put the fund or project first in the title. Use high severity for a grant deadline within 21 days, a license change on a top-100 dependency, or a compromise in a package over 10 million weekly downloads. Return no more than 8 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what it is, who qualifies or is affected, the deadline, what to do, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.
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