Eric Berry is funding open source with CodeFund (Founders Talk #56)

Eric Berry started Code Sponsor a year ago because of his passion for finding ways to sustain and fund open source developers. He ultimately had to shutdown due to potential legal issues with GitHub, but was given new life as CodeFund when he went to work for ConsenSys and Gitcoin. We talked through the backstory of this idea, why he’s so passionate about funding open source, ethical advertising, being unapologetically focused on your mission, the value of honesty and openness, and the future direction of CodeFund.

Eric Berry started Code Sponsor a year ago because of his passion for finding ways to sustain and fund open source developers. He ultimately had to shutdown due to potential legal issues with GitHub, but was given new life as CodeFund when he went to work for ConsenSys and Gitcoin. We talked through the backstory of this idea, why he’s so passionate about funding open source, ethical advertising, being unapologetically focused on your mission, the value of honesty and openness, and the future direction of CodeFund.

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Featuring:

Eric Berry – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

CodeFund
What I’ve learned over the past year funding open source
The CPC Illusion
gitcoinco/codefund
Code Sponsor + Gitcoin = OSS Sustainability
Why Funding Open Source is Hard
React Table
Material UI
nayafia/lemonade-stand
Codesandbox
Nuxt.js
Sustain Summit 2018
Open Collective
Founders Talk #52: Pia Mancini is now CEO and growing Open Collective

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