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A community holding space for discussions around systemic issues with open source sustainability

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Projects

Support the following initiatives from SustainOSS.

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Sustain Academic WG Grant
Funds for the Academic WG

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Sustain Environment Podcast
Funding a new podcast on Sustaining both OSS and the Environment

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Events

SustainOSS is hosting the following events.

Past event
SustainOSS Virtual Forum
03:00 PM-06:00 PM UTC
A virtual three-hour event bringing together developers, researchers, and policy makers

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Sustain OSS India Meetup
12:30 PM-02:30 PM UTC
Join the gathering of open source sustainers for India's first SustainOSS event.

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No attendees
Past event
Sustain @ FOSSY 2023 Meet up
01:30 AM-03:00 AM UTC
A casual meet up when

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Sourcegraph x SustainOSS Meetup
01:00 AM-05:00 AM UTC
Let's talk Python, AI, and open source over 🍕, 🍻, & pinball machines! 👾

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Past event
Sustain @ State of Open Con 2023
→
09:00 AM UTC
Join us at State of Open Con 2023 for a series of peer-led updates, conversations and collaborati...Read more

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No attendees
Past event
SustainOSS FOSDEM 2023 Meetup
05:30 PM-07:30 PM UTC
As a token of appreciation for your contributions to the open source community, SustainOSS invite...Read more

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Past event
Sustain 2020
08:00 AM-06:00 PM UTC
Sustain Summit: A one-day event for Open Source sustainers

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+ 5
Past event
Sustain Community Meetup
01:00 AM-04:00 AM UTC
An afternoon conversation about sustaining Open Source Communities at different companies.

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Past event
Sustain Summit 2018 - London
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04:00 PM UTC
A one-day event for Open Source sustainers hosted in London

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+ 8
Past event
Sustain Summit 2017 - San Francisco
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05:00 PM UTC
A one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers

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Top financial contributors

Organizations

1
Google LLC

$16,560.97 USD since Feb 2020

2
Carnegie Mellon University

$16,362.49 USD since Aug 2024

3
Sloan Foundation

$11,957.02 USD since Oct 2018

4
Ford Foundation

$10,000 USD since Oct 2018

5
Indeed

$10,000 USD since Feb 2020

6
GitHub

$2,250 USD since Jun 2023

7
CURIOSS

$2,200 USD since Jun 2025

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Open Source Collective

$1,754.55 USD since Jan 2017

9
Iron.io

$1,130 USD since Apr 2017

10
Open Source Collective org (deprecated)

$1,073.21 USD since Jul 2017

Individuals

1
Accenture Technology

$2,000 USD since Feb 2020

2
Todd Gamblin

$1,110 USD since Jun 2017

3
Kris Borchers

$1,000 USD since Apr 2017

4
Guest

$553.7 USD since Aug 2024

5
Andrew Nesbitt

$196 USD since Jun 2017

6
Gratipay

$100 USD since Jan 2017

7
Nithya Ruff

$100 USD since Mar 2017

8
VM Brasseur

$100 USD since Mar 2017

9
Dave Gandy

$100 USD since Apr 2017

10
Will Norris

$100 USD since May 2017

SustainOSS is all of us

Our contributors 135

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Budget

Transparent and open finances.

Financial contribution to SustainOSS

Credit from CURIOSS to SustainOSS •

+$2,200.00USD
Completed
Contribution #860478
Mailgun

Debit from SustainOSS to Richard Littauer •

-$35.00USD
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Gmail for Tina

Debit from SustainOSS to Richard Littauer •

-$76.32USD
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Today’s balance

$2,701.95 USD

Total raised

$139,219.16 USD

Total disbursed

$136,517.21 USD

Estimated annual budget

$20,126.93 USD

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News from SustainOSS

Updates on our activities and progress.

Sustain Podcast – Requests for Funding!

Hey all, After many years of running the Sustain Podcasts - either the main podcast, or...
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Published on June 5, 2025 by Richard Littauer

Introducing Sustain Weekly 🎉

The past few months, we’ve been testing out ways to better document, share, and respond to what’s happening in the world of open source sustainability. At the end of each week, some of us connect to review current news on sustainable open s...
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Published on March 31, 2022 by Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

About

The Conference


SustainOSS is a one-day event for conversations around open source. Sustain events are led by a facilitator. There are no keynotes, talks, or sponsor demos. Your undivided attention is required. Phones and laptops should not be used throughout the day and you will be asked to put devices away if they are a distraction to you or anyone else.

The Podcasts


Sustain has been running podcasts for years, with over 300 interviews with industry leaders and open sourcerors. You can listen to the main SustainOSS podcast, our Sustain Open Source Design Podcast, or OSS for Climate. 

Sustainer?


The individual or organization who is concerned with the fragile state and future of highly-used and impactful open source projects.

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Our team

Pia Mancini

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Richard Littauer

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Benjamin Nick...

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Eric Berry

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Eriol Fox

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Abigail Cabun...

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