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I am actually looking forward to hearing from the people here. Yeah Low-effort I know.

But I think this is an important topic to discuss, considering how much of the FOSS community is kept afloat by unpaid & volunteer-labour.

I am especially looking forward to any discussions of possible solutions

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[-] phneutral@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

In Germany there is some movement on this topic:

The Prototype Fund (funds small FOSS projects)
The Sovereign Tech Agency and Sovereign Tech Fund (funds companies, communities and individual contributors that commit to several fundamental FOSS projects like Maven)
Zendis (the Centre for Digital Sovereignty, that is for example contracting several FOSS companies like Next Cloud to build an office software suite called Open Desk for the German administration)

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