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Evaluating the needs of FOSS communities working on digital infrastructure in the public interest
This report explores the unique nature of the community that builds and maintains free and open-source software (FOSS) and its role in sha-ping an open Internet. It draws on interviews with contributors to FOSS projects to highlight the community’s strengths as well as its challenges. It finds that, while the community runs on trust-based relationships, self-organization and self-motivation, these foster a lack of organizational structure and low diversity among contributors. This results in a lack of different skills and perspectives that are necessary for running successful, sustainable projects, and lost oppor-tunities to receive funding and other, non-monetary support. Based on these insights, this report proposes recommendations of how funders can support the FOSS community more effectively
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