Open Source Pledge ⇌

We've reached nine million dollars 😳️ Since yesterday (!), the amount paid to OSS maintainers by @opensourcepledge.com members has risen by $739,137 to a total of $9,160,672. This is thanks to a contribution from HeroDevs, who are worth celebrating for all they do for software supply chain security 🎉️

We just gave $1,000,000 to Open Source maintainers at @sentry.io, up from $750K last year! 🎉️ And this month the @opensourcepledge.com turns 2. Its 37 member companies have now paid $8,421,535 to the people who build the software we all rely on. Read on to find out where the money went.

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tell Syntax which undersupported and underpaid Open Source folks you are most grateful to 🙏️

renewing the bolt open source fund for 2026. $1,700/month in new sponsorships, $11,333/month total. @bolt.new and webcontainers are built on other people's open source. here's who we fund. bolt.new/blog/bolt-op...

Excited to be in Prague for my first #OSSummit! I'll be talking on Burnout in Open Source 11.55 on Friday, come say hi if you're around! 👋 Lots of exciting things in the schedule... bit.ly/3NXx5Zp

With help from the amazing @mirandaheath.website, the 2026 State of Devs survey results are now available! 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/ This already took a ton of work, and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what the dataset could teach us.

Daniel (@danielroe.dev) and Matias (@patak.cat) of npmx (npmx.dev) join host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) explores community, governance, inclusion, burnout, and sustainability beyond nonstop productivity. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/293

Did you know that a bunch of software packages we all depend on are hidden from dependency trees? I spoke about this at EuroPython 2026 😊️

Such an important and multifaceted topic, thanks for the exploring this, was really nice to chat with you about it! Big recommend for anyone feeling a bit off the more they use AI to code!

This is the most important video I've ever made. In this, I explore the negative and positive mental health effects of AI coding, with data and expert commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUn...

Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.

this is how it's done 👇👏 do you know a company that should join next? put them in the replies!

Sounds like a great job opportunity for security-minded folks ✨

I won't tell if you won't 🙉

secret discord server, please ignore…unless you are interested in open source funding 👀 discord.gg/Ay5abGkaxX

I'm at @europython.eu in Kraków, here to talk about binary dependencies, the @stewardshiplab.org and the @opensourcepledge.com. Come say hi!

Andrew is describing such an important vision for what Open Source sustainability could be 👏🏻

We've heard rumours that, if you go see Vlad's talk, you'll also learn some things about the Pledge 👀

We are proud to have been sponsoring open source from the beginning. It's a core value of the company, and now it's more important than ever to support maintainers of the packages we all use and enjoy. We wrote a little about it here: blog.ag-grid.com/ag-grid-join...

The Open Source Pledge is a great example of a well run program to help educate companies and nudge them into action. @vlad.website pours so much love into it. We're lucky to count with folks that genuinely care about the long term sustainability story of our shared commons.

Huge thanks to CodeRabbit and Santosh for sponsoring npmx for $1K a month! 🧡🧡🧡 @coderabbitai.bsky.social are the top company by donations per developer in @opensourcepledge.com. OSS sustainability would look very different if every company gave to open source like they do 🙏

A new report from Bloomberg explains why companies should move “from passive consumption to active stewardship” of the Open Source packages they rely on: “you cannot have sustainable code without sustaining the humans who write it (…) if you live in the house, you help fix the roof”.

OSS burnout claims another project. On 2 Apr, an entitled user angrily asked the burned-out maintainer of nvim-treesitter to “go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people”. The maintainer replied “OK” — and archived the repo, stopping development of nvim-treesitter.

Andrew has been building tools to understand the Open Source ecosystem for over a decade, and a new independent paper confirms the effectiveness of his approach to supporting maintainers. I want to celebrate his work today! 🎉

in times like these, I'm very happy that @sanity.io put some of our @opensourcepledge.com dollars on the good folks at @pnpm.io 🫡 (and we made it our mandated package manager internally)

A very telling chart. Open Source funding has been frozen for the past four years, while everyone's needs for our shared commons infrastructure have continued to grow exponentially. Pay maintainers properly if you want your dependencies to stop feeling like a minefield.

We need everyone to wake up to how fragile our shared commons are. We can't wait until we drown in security incidents and more projects close down, using them as excuses. If you're in a position to help (every company is), check who you depend on and need support (everyone), and fund them.

While others race away from Open Source, @vlt.sh is doubling down. 🖤⚡ Today we’re announcing our renewed commitment to @opensourcepledge.com and investing back into the ecosystem. www.vlt.io/blog/doublin...

Shout-out to ethicalads.io: they donate ads that account for about 30% of the traffic to our website. Working together to #paythemaintainers! 🙌

I really enjoyed talking to @josh.bressers.name about the @opensourcepledge.com, and about why and how we should support Open Source maintainers 😊

Welcome aboard to Synergy, everyone's favorite software KVM. 🖥️ 🖥️ 🖥️ ⌨️ 🖱️ opensourcepledge.com/members/syne...

I tip my hat to everyone out there that is doing the thankless, unpaid work to ensure their environments & software stays safe/secure. At @vlt.sh we're giving back (ex. @opensourcepledge.com) & building a package manager that attacks the last mile problem with a zero trust approach.

We're touched by Foxley Talent's dedication to the Open Source ecosystem we all rely on. 🫶 “The last 12 months have been the hardest since I started Foxley Talent (...) [but] for the fourth year running, I have donated $5,000 to the Django Software Foundation (...) it's non negotiable”

It’s official. Mux is part of the @opensourcepledge.com. $77,730 ($2,101/dev) to OSS in 2025, plus stewarding Video.js, the web’s most popular open source player. @mmcc.io wrote about why we signed -- and the dinner conversation that made us act: www.mux.com/blog/mux-joi...

Welcome aboard to @mux.com! With that we are up over $7 MM total cash contributed to Open Source maintainers by Pledge member companies since launch! 💃 Their post: www.mux.com/blog/mux-joi... Their page: opensourcepledge.com/members/mux/

The invisible code running the world (and who pays for it) https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/03/20/the-invisible-code-running-the-world-and-who-pays-for-it/ #OpenSource #SWH10

Private Packagist supports the Open Source ecosystem, and we want to celebrate them today 🔥

“In Open Source, what looks like fairness often is not. Free for everyone sounds equitable, but the cost does not disappear. It is absorbed by those who can least afford it, while the organizations that benefit most often pay the least.”

Vlad-Stefan Harbuz: "This kind of trust reveals a deep understanding present in npmx’s culture — an understanding that we depend on other people more than we know, and that we can only go so far by ourselves." 🤍💚