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!

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

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

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!

We welcomed 23 new hosted collectives during June! Welcome to: Austin JavaScript, BetterSEQTA Plus, Birjand LUG (Linux Users Group), Caching tools, CASA, Chatbot Arena, Craftgen, Extension.js, Feign, Friends of Grails, Games on Whales, Kubeskoop, libgit2, Oapi-codegen, OpenAPI TypeScript, Python OpenBMCLAPI, QPod, React robins, ReactVision, Reia, Schedule X, SpaRcle Studio, WeDance!

Mautic's Virtual Conference!

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!

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!
 

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/


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