Software, systems, and society. 💎 @ipfs.tech Fdn Director, Google Forms inventor, velodrome racer, safe streets advocate. Philly + everywhere.
Mosh Lee
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@gandersocial.ca user co-op, @geomys.org maintainer co-op (my label not theirs), @hypha.coop worker co-op, just to name a few.
@bad-example.com @anisota.net @blackskyweb.xyz @graze.social have ads, subscriptions, or Github sponsors links currently live.
Most funding conversations collapse into "how do we get money from outside" (grants, investment). Cross-subsidization flips it to "how do we generate money ourselves to fund what we care about." Seems like a more durable and more autonomous position for OSS.
I also learned that UBC pays for capital improvements by building housing and selling to the public, including presales. Good example of cross-subsidy.
Here's the updated "Funding Models Are Not Binary" slide from my Feature/Product/Business talk #ATmosphereConf. Turns out there are even more great examples already in the Atmosphere!
