This Thanksgiving, buy Cranberry sOSS to fund open source

"The Cranberry sOSS campaign is a slightly confusing fundraising effort that probably works best if you are both American and pronounce its name in an accent affected by the Cot-Caught merger. The Reg FOSS desk is neither, but still thinks that hardworking coders, including that random person in Nebraska, should be rewarded, and hey, the campaign's heart is in the right place (possibly in a small plastic bag along with its gizzard and liver). And yes, the fundraiser really does involve buying jars of cranberry sauce to support open source maintainers."

"Compiled from the best ingredients Cape Cod has to offer, it's the perfect build for anyone who likes their sauce clean and fresh; tart, but beautifully balanced. Deploy it to your sandwiches, your charcuterie boards, or skip all that and just fork it straight from the jar. Dinner parties, late night leftover sessions, crunch mode - it's perfect in any .env. Made with simple, clean ingredients and a commit-ment to quality, it's a delicious nod to Cape Cod's organic farming tradition that will merge right into any meal (and every jar sold supports Open Source devs!)"

"The Open Source Pledge started just over a year ago and its efforts to make people more aware of the risks of developer burnout are serious. In a slightly less regionally specific way than the Cranberry sOSS campaign, the Open Source Pledge project is using the research of thanks.dev to identify exactly where the money should go. The Pledge project isn't all whimsy. It is also promoting some genuine research. Yesterday, it published an article, " Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together." It's written by psychologist Miranda Heath, who recently published a 47-page study titled " A Report on Burnout in Open"

Open Source Pledge tackles unpaid FOSS maintainers and developer burnout through themed fundraising, awareness, and research-driven fund allocation. The project uses playful campaigns such as Cranberry sOSS, which sells jars of cranberry sauce to support maintainers while leveraging holiday branding to attract donors. The initiative partners with research sources like thanks.dev to identify where funds will have the most impact and to target support effectively. The effort began just over a year ago and combines whimsical fundraising with promotion of research into structural causes of burnout and practical interventions to reduce workload and financial insecurity for maintainers.

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