Funding
Why It Matters
Funding has become an important part of open source projects. This can be in the form of the community itself receiving external financial support as well as developers being paid for their community work. Underfunded projects carry a potential to decline into an unusable state. With the current need to ensure the long-term viability of so many open source projects, funding can provide insights to the potential sustainability of an open source project.
User Stories
- As an OSPO manager, it may be important to understand if an open source project we rely on has sufficient financial support to ensure long-term sustainability.
- As an OSPO manager, it may be important to understand the financial support our organization provides to specific open source proejcts.
- As an OSPO manager, financial support can imply influence. Knowing organizational financial support in a project may help understand influence.
- As a project maintainer, core contributors who are not compensated are less likely to maintain quality contributions.
Metrics in the Metrics Model
- Contribution Attribution
- What is the ratio of volunteer work, sponsored work, and blended work?
- How many contributions are sponsored?
- Who is sponsoring the contributions?
- What types of contributions are sponsored?
- Organizational Influence
- Types of contributions
- By this metric, we could see the number of organizations of different type of contributions.
- Labor Investment
- Organizational Diversity
- Organizational diversity expresses how many different organizations are involved in a project and how involved different organizations are compared to one another.
References
Contributors
- Emma Irwin
- Matt Germonprez
- Yehui Wang
- Chenqi Shan
To reference this metric in software or publications please use this stable URL: https://chaoss.community/?p=4748