We just gave a million dollars to Open Source maintainers

Publisher preview

The title is not a joke. For those of you who know Sentry, you know we've been giving back to Open Source maintainers since our early days in whatever ways we could. But around five years ago we really started to give in a more meaningful way. This year we increased our budget from $750,000 to $1,000,000. Why? Well, we know the obvious value of Open Source software and believe the companies who use it should support the people who build and maintain it. Open Source software is like the ultimate cheat code – shared libraries, frameworks, and tools that have years of community support and development that we can use off the shelf and focus time on building other products, services, and businesses. Sentry benefits from this every day. Funding these projects and maintainers keeps the flywheel going. LLMs have extended what we can build with these tools. But the AI stack also depends on Open Source. That's one reason why we added NumFOCUS to the foundations we supported in 2025 and continue to support this year too. (The more you know: NumFOCUS is a nonprofit that helps fund the Open Source scientific computing tools used in today's AI development.) All this said, Sentry is not alone. This October marks the second anniversary of the Open Source Pledge, an initiative we started to help recognize companies who felt the same way we did and highlight Open Source maintainers. As of today, the Pledge's 37 member companies have paid a total of $8,421,535 to Open Source maintainers and foundations.

A saved ApplyDjinn digest is not available for this story yet.

This preview is supplied by the publisher. The complete publication remains at its original source.