NerdOut@Spotify12 Jan 2023

14: For Love and Money?

From Norway to Nebraska, there are individual developers keeping the open source projects that we all depend on going. Last year, Spotify started an annual fund to help support maintainers of free and open source software (FOSS) — the Spotify FOSS Fund. We earmarked 100,000 Euros and then gave it away to nine projects, no strings attached. One of those recipients was Byte Buddy, a project with millions of users, but just one volunteer maintainer — its creator, Rafael Winterhalter. Hear what it takes to sustain something that started as a passion project in 2014 and then grew to become much more.

Rafael talks with our host Dave Zolotusky and Per Ploug, Spotify’s open source tech lead, who helped set up our FOSS fund. They discuss how Spotify decided which projects to fund, why giving away (and accepting) free money is harder than you might think, and what it’s really like maintaining a popular open source project all on your own.

Learn more about the recipients of the the Spotify FOSS Fund and other ways we’re working to create a more sustainable open source ecosystem:

Read what else we’re nerding out about on the Spotify Engineering Blog: engineering.atspotify.com

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