{"id":103,"date":"2018-02-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denisarucaj.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2023-09-04T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T15:36:24","slug":"floss-communities-cost-structure-and-funding-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denisarucaj.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/20\/floss-communities-cost-structure-and-funding-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"FLOSS Communities Cost Structure and Funding Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The main purpose of this report was to \u200bresearch and explain the cost structure of<br>FLOSS communities and the corresponding funding sources\u200b. This was done<br>by comparing and analyzing financial reports from open source companies, thorough<br>research in scientific literature about open source, consulting online forums used by<br>FLOSS users and reviewing FLOSS conferences related to the cost structure of the<br>organisations.<br><br>Research areas<br>Cost structure of FLOSS communities<br>Funding of FLOSS programmers<br>Funding of FLOSS companies<br>Sources of FLOSS funding<br><br>Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Communities analysed are:<br><strong>Wikimedia<br>Fedora<br>Eclipse<br>Debian<br>Software Freedom Conservancy<br>Fsfe<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file has-very-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/denisarucaj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FLOSScommunities.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of FLOSScommunities.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-696d5625-5e83-4bb9-b239-820fe86ab629\" href=\"https:\/\/denisarucaj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FLOSScommunities.pdf\" style=\"color: #000000\">FLOSScommunities<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/denisarucaj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FLOSScommunities.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-696d5625-5e83-4bb9-b239-820fe86ab629\" style=\"padding: 10px; color: black; background-color: darkgrey;font-weight: bold;\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main purpose of this report was to \u200bresearch and explain the cost structure of<br \/>\nFLOSS communities and the corresponding funding sources\u200b. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,20,19],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-floss","tag-flosscommunities","tag-opensource"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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