Oct 22, 2026, 4:43 PM# Funding Free / open source software: what can I, personally, do differently?
Almost five years on, and I don't think that much has changed.
I wish that there was an easier way of funding Free software.
- Oct 22, 2026, 4:43 PM
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- Oct 22, 2026, 4:45 PM
My small business runs almost exclusively on FOSS, and I started to keep track of donations, but it was a piecemeal, hard to keep up, approach:
Martin Steiger ☘️martinsteiger@chaos.socialOct 22, 2026, 5:03 PM@neil What's your CRM? What's your AI stack?
- Oct 22, 2026, 5:06 PM
This is a little outdated, but pretty close still:
https://decoded.legal/blog/2024/09/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2024-edition/
> CRM
espoCRM
> AI stack
I don't use AI
Newtipod7813@toad.socialOct 23, 2026, 3:36 AM@neil That was a really compelling read getting to see what all you're using! Thanks for sharing and I'll be sure to keep up with your blog (Hugo, I've learned!).
- Oct 23, 2026, 5:10 AM
It was Hugo back then - now BSSG :)
https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/moving-my-static-site-blog-generator-from-hugo-to-bssg/
🫧 Social coding commonssmallcircles@social.coopOct 22, 2026, 5:04 PMThis is a wonderful article, reflecting on ones own best means to contribute to works of others, and providing mutual benefit that way. 💕
That in itself could be like a method. People have a /me and /now page. Might also have a /fund page. Such page is both insightful to people who'd like to be funded as well as for other who'd like to fund.
Tangential, @omkar_foss is reviving / updating delightful funding curated list, by processing the huge backlog I had hanging around for years. Already a lot has been added, more is coming.
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-funding
On the systemic side Social coding commons has Sustainable FOSS, or rather SOSS - Sustainable open social software / systems / services / solutions - initiatives as a concept to elaborate, via Social experience design (SX). SOSS has a solution supply chain, FOSS has a lifecycle.
The FOSS model is broken. FOSS is only useful as a label on the software artifact, the deliverable, but is inadequate for the movement of its creators.