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Job of the Week: HeroDevs, Senior Software Engineer (Python)

When software becomes deprecated, who makes sure it remains usable and secure? It could be you! HeroDevs is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer specialised in Python to join their Never-Ending Support team. You'd be keeping critical technologies running smoothly, forever.

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EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF) The report ‘Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure: The Economic, Legal, and Political Feasibility of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF)’ provides a roadmap for establishing an EU Sovereign Tech...

“Open Source components are foundational for the digital infrastructure we all rely on. But their contributions have not been accompanied by an equal focus on sustaining and investing in them.”

Amazing work by @nckgts.bsky.social et al. 👏 Many of the same arguments also apply to joining the Pledge.

Buttondown: How One Team Built a Successful Business by Building Less | Open Source Pledge Buttondown founder Justin Duke on the company's origins and why they give thousands each year to Open Source contributors

.@buttondown.com:
VC funding ❌
Multiple pivots ❌
Hiring spree/subsequent RIFs ❌

Stayes lean ✅
Stays focused on building for customers ✅
Deliberate, sustainable growth ✅
Supports Open Source ✅✅✅

Read about Buttondown's atypical path to startup success, one rooted in a philosophy of sustainability🤲

Buttondown: How One Team Built a Successful Business by Building Less | Open Source Pledge Buttondown founder Justin Duke on the company's origins and why they give thousands each year to Open Source contributors

ICYMI: @gregkumparak.bsky.social spoke to Justin from @buttondown.com to tell the very cool story of a business built around the philosophy of sustainability.

They don't chase hypergrowth and support the OSS projects that enable their success.

Here’s your chance to work for a company that’s inventing the future of AI agents _and_ Open Source sustainability 👀

Buttondown: How One Team Built a Successful Business by Building Less | Open Source Pledge Buttondown founder Justin Duke on the company's origins and why they give thousands each year to Open Source contributors

.@buttondown.com:
VC funding ❌
Multiple pivots ❌
Hiring spree/subsequent RIFs ❌

Stayes lean ✅
Stays focused on building for customers ✅
Deliberate, sustainable growth ✅
Supports Open Source ✅✅✅

Read about Buttondown's atypical path to startup success, one rooted in a philosophy of sustainability🤲

Screenshot of donation confirmations to typescript-eslint, ESLint, Anthony Fu Fund, pnpm, PostCSS, Autoprefixer and Rollup

As part of our open source pledge, we financially support our critical dependencies and important projects / initiatives for the web ecosystem.

Job of the Week: Antithesis, Developer Relations Lead

Love the feeling of finding a reproducible bug? Consider becoming a Developer Relations Lead at Antithesis, a team of bug-finding experts looking for someone to build and nurture a community of developers who believe in fully deterministic property-based testing.

opensourcepledge.com/jobs/

For Open Path № 2, I talked to @simonwillison.net, @nedbat.com, and five other maintainers to understand the Open Source burnout crisis from their point of view. The dream? Financial support w/o hoops!

Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...

YouTube video by Syntax Chad confuses an accountant w/ Open Source, plus NYC and PyCon shenanigans (full episode)

Where should @opensourcepledge.com payments go in a company's chart of accounts? @chadwhitacre.com talks to an accountant to find out—the answer could change accounting forever! Side quests to NYC and @pycon.us, in episode 2 of Open Path ... 🍿 🥾

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY-...

What serverless mistakes burn budgets? When do you need Functions? What's the difference between App SDK & Sanity Client?

Get answers from the devs who built them.

📅 June 26, 09 PT | 12 ET | 5 BST
💬 Event + Q&A in our Discord channel - register below: discord.com/events/13044...

📢 BIG NEWS IF YOU ARE AN OPEN SOURCE MAINTAINER!

The HeroDevs Open Source Sustainability Fund is giving $20M to creators shipping secure, high-impact OSS — while we handle legacy.

Learn how to apply→ www.herodevs.com/blog-posts/h...

#OpenSource #CyberSecurity #EOL #HeroDevs

We have to support Open Source maintainers for our global software ecosystem to be sustainable. Could a community-governed endowment help? Join us and let's find out :)

Not Paying Open Source Maintainers Is Expensive | Open Source Pledge Not paying for the Open Source software you use can seem like a great deal — but it can end up costing you money.

Did you know that not paying the Open Source maintainers you depend on can end up costing your company money? @vlad.website explains why 👇

Not Paying Open Source Maintainers Is Expensive | Open Source Pledge Not paying for the Open Source software you use can seem like a great deal — but it can end up costing you money.

Did you know that not paying the Open Source maintainers you depend on can end up costing your company money? @vlad.website explains why 👇

Maintainer Month 2025 with Sarah Rainsberger of Astro Hosts Richard, Abby, and Eriol chat with Sarah Rainsberger of Astro about her journey from teaching math to open source, inclusive docs, and using low-tech tools like Chromebooks for coding.

Feels like there's been so much talking (and of course, doc'ing), so little time to post about it!

- SustainOSS podcast
- Talking and Doc'ing now live on YouTube every week: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Next week, new Astro course on Scrimba + my @scrimba.bsky.social -> @astro.build journey!

Smart choice to move to @buttondown.com, they support Open Source 💞✨

Anyone for hockey? Congrats to Pledge member co @prefect.io 👏

GitBook is a platform that lets users collaboratively build and publish beautiful documentation. Are you an experienced Typescript/Node developer looking to contribute to a product that has an impact on millions of users, while mentoring engineers so they can do their best work? Then consider dropping GitBook a line — you'd be working for a company that pioneers sustainable Open Source by paying the maintainers it depends on.

GitBook is hiring a Typescript/Node developer to build a platform for publishing beautiful documentation used by millions.

You'd be working for a company that pioneers sustainable Open Source by paying the maintainers it depends on. 🙌

opensourcepledge.com/jobs/

Vlad's @altctrl.org talk is such an important argument for paying Open Source maintainers 🙌

We should fund the software we use, not just the software we see | Open Source Pledge Ben Nickolls and Andrew Nesbitt tell us about Ecosystem Funds, their one-stop-shop for funding open source dependencies

We asked @andrewnez.bsky.social and Benjamin Nickolls to tell us about Ecosystem Funds, their one-stop shop for helping orgs fund the Open Source software they actually depend on.

An illustration with the text "manylinux" and "portable R binary packages" on the left and a pattern of interconnected hexagons on the right. Many of the hexagons contain a blue "R" and a penguin icon.

Introducing Portable Linux R Binary Packages! 📦

We're excited to preview this solution for complex system library dependencies, particularly for those in diverse Linux environments.

Learn about portable binary packages and how to install them in our blog post: posit.co/blog/introdu...

#RStats

We're at #WCEU in Basel! Go say hi to Vlad if you're there. 🎉

Great to see this from zerodha.com! 👏 I look forward to strengthening our relationship at the fossunited.org conference in Bangalore in September. 👍

How the World Is Celebrating Open Source Maintainer Month Celebrate Maintainer Month with this bevy of resources and treats.

Thanks @thenewstack.io for spotlighting #maintainermonth efforts, and @github.com for organizing in the first place! It's been a great May so far, and it's only four more days until Just Pay Them June 😏

Wrote a small article for @opensource.org about my experiences and thoughts on contributing to Open Source software: opensource.org/maintainers/...

Bolt are looking for an engineer to advance web computing by working on WebContainer, the first-ever in-browser WebAssembly-based operating system. The job is remote and gives you a high degree of autonomy. But more than that, you'd be getting paid to be an Open Source contributor to projects such as Node.js, Next.js and others. Sound good? Apply now.

@bolt.new are looking for an engineer to advance web computing by working on WebContainer, the first in-browser WebAssembly-based operating system.

You'd be getting paid to be an Open Source contributor, AND you'd get to work with @patak.dev. Sounds pretty good to us!

opensourcepledge.com/jobs/

Found some @opensourcepledge.com member companies at #pycon!