Last updated: October 27, 2025
About Us
Open Source Wishlist is an open source, open content, community project created by Emma Irwin, in partnership open source collaborator Christos Bacharakis and with feedback from many of our peers, maintainers and potential funders .
About Open Source Wishlist
Open source projects cannot be sustainable without help. Direct funding helps in some ways (and we should keep doing that!), but it also leaves additional work for the maintainers to use that money in ways that make their project actually sustainable.
Sponsors often fund projects, but have a hard time describing how those funds had impact on sustainability.
Practitioners
Practitioners We are open source practitioners, but one of MANY open source practitioners with availability, skill, and empathy who can easily step in to help open source projects repair, uplevel, and build a more sustainable future. Guided by industry standards, we’ve all helped write, build, and improve — our time can really make a difference — and yet that connection is missing.
We believe that by creating this connection, we can really make a huge difference for open source sustainability.
We expect to learn along the way and appreciate all report-backs.
Want to learn more or chat?
We host short information sessions to share how this works and hear your needs.
Questions about this policy? Contact us at [email protected]
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