Mozilla Launches Open Source Support Program

[Posted October 23, 2015 by n8willis]

Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker has announced the launch of "an award program specifically focused on supporting open source and free software. The main focus of the program will be to provide financial support of other projects, "to recognize and celebrate communities who are leading the way with open source projects that contribute to our work and the health of the Web. It encompasses both: a) a 'give back' element for open source and free software projects that Mozilla relies on; and b) a 'give forward' component for supporting other projects where financial resources from Mozilla can make our entire community more successful." The initial funding allocation for the program is $1,000,000, and Mozilla is seeking applications for ten recipient projects. The announcement also notes that one planned component of the program will be to fund security-related work. (Thanks to Martin Michlmayr).

Mozilla Launches Open Source Support Program

Posted Oct 28, 2015 23:19 UTC (Wed) by ILMostro (guest, #105083) [Link] (1 responses)

Who can file petitions for these grants? If it's not strictly developers perhaps grsecurity could benefit from this, thereby reversing their decision to stop supplying stable patches to the mainstream kernel http://grsecurity.net/announce.php

Mozilla Launches Open Source Support Program

Posted Nov 2, 2015 15:18 UTC (Mon) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link]

Grant applications are filed jointly by the project lead and a "Mozilla Champion", who is an established Mozillian who will vouch for the fact that Mozilla uses and relies on the techology, be part of the liaison during the process, and explain how it went at the end. For the currently-launched track of MOSS, the project needs to be software that Mozilla uses in its products or relies on in its infrastructure.

Gerv