Funding FOSS together: Combining public and private efforts

This presentation highlights the different motivations and goals of two organizations that have been funding the FOSS ecosystem since 2022, one funded by the private sector, the other by the public sector.

Alpha-Omega is an associated project of the OpenSSF, with a mission to protect society by catalyzing sustainable security improvements to the most critical open source software projects and ecosystems.

The Sovereign Tech Agency is an initiative funded by the German ministry for economic affairs and climate action and is strengthening the Open Source ecosystem in the public interest, with a focus on maintenance.

We will talk about the different approaches and backgrounds, but most importantly about the overlaps and future opportunities when it comes to joint efforts to strengthen the ecosystem.