open source funding available from Gitpod

[ghuntley]

Howdy,

As part of Gitpod's Open Source Fund initiative attendees of the DevX Conf were able to decide where $10,000 USD of funds (the profits from DevX Conf plus an additional donation by Gitpod) were to be distributed. We thought long and hard about what projects to include in the competition and pondered about:

1. what exactly is digital infrastructure?
2. what tools are relied upon by developers every day that are built and maintained almost exclusively by unpaid volunteers?.

After some dialectical thinking, the answer became clear: projects built by unpaid volunteers in the category of linters and language server protocol implementations.

Attendees of the DevX Conference were able to vote once for each of the projects and the distribution of funds was calculated using Quadratic Funding (Paper). See wtfisqf.com for a breakdown of how the fund was split. Each vote was considered as a share (or $1 matched) and then a total amount was set to $10,000.

Your open-source project was one of the competition entrants and there are funds outstanding that can be claimed by the project steward. If you wish to divert the funds to a cause that helps improve diversity in open-source such as Outreachy then that's possible!

See https://www.gitpod.io/blog/devxconf-wrap for more information.