We're excited to announce that Typelevel has been chosen as a recipient of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund! As a result, Spotify has donated €20,000 to Typelevel's OpenCollective. Our current funding goes towards recurring infrastructure expenses, and sending members of our code of conduct committee for training to better support our community. With these extra funds we'd like to expand our initiatives to encourage and support new contributors and users!
A coalition of heavyweight open source foundations issued a joint statement via the foundation on Tuesday, declaring that "open infrastructure is not free" and warning that the critical machinery behind modern software development is being stretched to breaking point. Package registries like Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, npm, and Packagist handle billions of downloads every month, yet the organizations running them are often scraping by on donations, grants, and the goodwill of a few sponsors.