I have a couple open source projects (github.com/ua1-labs). Funding has to be a personal decision in my opinion. Just as personal as the question, do I work for a company or myself?
With that being said, I chose to fund my open source projects through the services I provide. Instead of trying to fund the project itself, I offer services to companies and use the open source projects I created to build out their systems.
That's a nice way I haven't even considered. So, if I get it right, you OSS project don't make money by themselves, but you use them to do contract work.
I have a couple open source projects (github.com/ua1-labs). Funding has to be a personal decision in my opinion. Just as personal as the question, do I work for a company or myself?
With that being said, I chose to fund my open source projects through the services I provide. Instead of trying to fund the project itself, I offer services to companies and use the open source projects I created to build out their systems.
That's a nice way I haven't even considered. So, if I get it right, you OSS project don't make money by themselves, but you use them to do contract work.
Good approach, I didn't think of that.