diff --git a/pages/01.blog/how-we-started-to-donate-to-open-source-at-work/item.md b/pages/01.blog/how-we-started-to-donate-to-open-source-at-work/item.md index cb0291b..29fed09 100644 --- a/pages/01.blog/how-we-started-to-donate-to-open-source-at-work/item.md +++ b/pages/01.blog/how-we-started-to-donate-to-open-source-at-work/item.md @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ content: published: false --- +# How we started to donate to Open Source at work + ## Pitching the idea As you might have seen in the news, there have been a lot of articles over the @@ -44,10 +46,8 @@ projects had with funding and asked if we as Contria might be wiling to do something in this regard. He quickly saw the reasoning behind the idea and was willing to continue with the project. -> Just like that? - -_Yes just like that. I hope that it will be this easy for everyone who tries to -do something similar._ +> Just like that? \ _Yes just like that. I hope that it will be this easy for +> everyone who tries to do something similar._ ## Getting started @@ -72,16 +72,15 @@ the budget because when I created the list I didn't know yet how much money I was able to spend. It then turned out that the budget would be a **few thousand** Swiss Francs, I could freely allocate. -> That doesn't sound like much for a swiss company with over 20 employees. - -_Compared to the licenses we pay for proprietary software it's indeed not that -much. But then again, it's still quite a substancial amount. Who knows maybe it -will grow in the future._ +> That doesn't sound like much for a swiss company with over 20 employees. \ +> _Compared to the licenses we pay for proprietary software it's indeed not +> that much. But then again, it's still quite a substancial amount. Who knows +> maybe it will grow in the future._ Last year we had about 40% left which I didn't allocate to a specific project. We didn't just want to keep the money and were sure that there were very important but "hidden" projects we didn't think of. Think OpenSSL for example -which was one of the most prominent examples in recent years.\\ +which was one of the most prominent examples in recent years. \ We first thought about giving the money to the FSFE or a similar foundation. A lot of them do a very good job, but we felt that some of them might be a bit too political for a company to donate to. @@ -111,12 +110,12 @@ doesn't get used we probably give it better to a project that does use it. I'm very happy with the outcome of our donating project. I feel that the amount we donate is sustainable, and it shows that we as a company care about -these projects.\\ +these projects. \ Since it's my employer I'm writing here about I can't make any predictions, but I will keep advocating for the use and support of Open Source and especially Free Software inside our company. For other people that think their employer might be able to contribute to Open -Source projects, I can give the following advice:\\ +Source projects, I can give the following advice: \ The main reason why we didn't do it before, was that we didn't have someone who carried the idea forward. So go ahead and give it a try :).