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June Update from OSC
Published on July 9, 2024 by Grace
Hello, OSC community! We hope your July is off to a wonderful start. Below you will find OSC's monthly update for June. Keep reading for announcements, community updates, and a funding opportunity for collectives in Germany!

📣 Announcements

Berlin (or Vienna) Meetup!
Are you in or around Berlin or attending the Open Source Summit in Vienna? OSC is considering hosting a happy hour or meetup and we’re gauging interest. If you’re in or around those cities, let us know by the end of July if you’re interested by filling out the Berlin/Vienna OSC Meetup Interest Survey

Discord
Open Collective has moved from Slack to Discord! Join Open Source Collective and the entire OC community at http://discord.opencollective.com

FOSSY 2024 in Portland, Oregon
Software Freedom Conservancy’s FOSSY 2024 is happening August 1-4th 2024 in Portland, Oregon USA. Want to attend but can’t afford a ticket? Don’t forget that OSC offers grants for conference attendance!

Open Source Funding Survey
GitHub, The Linux Foundation, and Harvard University researchers are studying how organizations support open source software. If you work in an OSPO, as a  Head of Engineering or Product, a C-Level Executive, or are knowledgeable about your organization's open source involvement, check out their survey: 2024 Open Source Software Funding Survey

ICYMI: OSC is consistently paying maintainers $1m a month
We wrote about this incredible milestone here!


✨ Community Highlights, Updates, and Announcements


New Collectives
Mautic’s fully virtual global conference is happening 10-11 July 2024! If you want to learn what you can do with open source marketing stacks, check it out! Tickets range from $10-$60 and 50% of the ticket cost gets allocated to Mautic’s dependencies. Want to attend but your collective doesn’t have enough funds? Don’t forget that OSC offers grants for conference attendance!

DocDetective at Open Source Summit and Their New Shop!
Check out Manny from DocDetective’s talk at the Open Source Summit, Docs as Tests: No More Broken Docs. DocDetective also recently opened up a swag shop and you can get your own No More Broken Docs shirt here here!

Play Framework at WeAreDevelopers World Congress!
Are you attending the WeAreDevelopers World Congress from July 17-19 in Berlin? If so, stop by and say hello to Play Framework! They’ll be at the Github Booth as part of the GitHub Open Source Spotlight!
 

💰 Funding Opportunities

Prototype Fund 
Do you live in Germany and work on civic tech, data literacy, data security, or software infrastructure? If so, the German Federal Ministry's Prototype Fund is opening up applications for their next funding round soon. Learn more here: https://prototypefund.de/


Is there anything you’d like us to share in these updates? Send us any news or updates you'd like us to include in future monthly posts! Reach out via email at [email protected] and let us know!

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 Hi guys, really appreciate the June update and all the details shared here. It’s great to see OSC supporting the open source community through meetups, funding opportunities, and exciting events like FOSSY and the Mautic conference. The move to Discord also feels like a positive step to bring the community closer together, and I like how new collectives are welcomed every month. The highlights make it easy to keep track of what’s happening across different projects, and the Prototype Fund opportunity is definitely useful for those working in civic tech and related areas. On a lighter note, if anyone enjoys gaming during their free time, you might want to check out this for some fun drifting action. Thanks. 
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