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What about sponsoring time for open source for the employees? I guess you ment direct donations with that too, but this is not too obvious.

I work at VNTRS Consulting in Stockholm, Sweden.
We're newer company so we don't have a public page for our policy.
Our policy is to allow for time to track down and help out open-source projects that is used in our projects, as long as it will solve a problem in said project. It's the best we can do for now given that we're a smaller company still.

Do we need to get a public page outlining our policy before I can submit a PR for this repo?

Microsoft is member of the Linux foundation and contributes to numerous third party projects but it is not in the list.
Is the criteria in the article good enough to open a PR?

A good start on corporations that provide measurable financial support to #opensource is to review sponsor pages for the major FOSS 501C3 organizations.

https://www.debian.org/partners/
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/
https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/
https://opensource.org/sponsors
https://www.joomla.org/current-sponsors.html
https://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/
https://plone.org/sponsors
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Acknowledgements
https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html
https://www.drupal.org/association/supporters/partners

A simple list of every company that somehow supports open source will include... everyone in the technology world. Quantifying what organizations appear on a list like this is important.
Good luck!

Individual sponsors contributes to a significant amount of open source finding.
Will there be another section for those kind of developers?

Hi,
Do you thinks, you can publish It on an heroku or whatever ?
Maybe turn It into a Gist ?

does it makes sense to sort by country ? while FLOSS is global.. I guesd that most fortune500 have done some contribution one way or an other...

Auth0 is not from United States, but from Argentina.

I believe it doesn't mean much for global organizations, e.g. Google and Mozilla, who sponsor open source projects everywhere.

@mxstbr @piamancini @xdamman @kof What should be the criteria to include an entry?

• Company or individuals?
• What kind of sponsorship? Money, time, SaaS "coupons"?
• What projects? Can Google be considered one just because it open sourced Chrome?

I'm not looking forward to being the arbiter of what companies are good enough (gladly the repo is now under a github org with others as well), I was just the one who kickstarted this thing by making a dumb initial commit, but there should be a way the list can be both useful and maintained fairly.

Too wide criteria and you end up including all companies under the sun. Too narrow criteria and it's a club. I want to hear feedback what should be the criteria, but currently given the initial Twitter thread we had, I would say the point is to identify companies that pay back to third-party open source projects, so I'd recommend the criteria "open source software not produced through company time linked to the company's business model", which rules out cases like GitLab Inc, etc, unfortunately.

Lets discuss how we can easily verify what kind of support a company provides and make sure the contract is strong and clear.

One suggestion is to specify a standard document ala robots.txt where things company does for open source are listed in a certain format, which could be crowled in the future and also acts as contract to make sure company actually does what it says.

Also things change, we should be able to easily update the list, in an automated way.