OPEN SOURCE FUND
In March 2022, Kangaroot announced the start of a financial fund that will tackle one of the elephants in the room when it comes to open source development:
Who pays the volunteers that maintain older, but wide-used libraries & software components?
The volunteers that aren't on hardware or software vendors' payrolls. Men & women who started developing or maintaining a piece of software and do not want to step away even when users get too demanding or when security issues arise.
Kangaroot has decided to start the ROOTFund with an initial contribution of € 25.000. As of April the 1st 2022, every day Kangaroot charges a customer € -10 will be added to the ROOTFund. Additionally, customers who want to contribute as well, will be able to do so.
A panel of experts (Kangaroot team members, partners & customers) will decide which developers and/or which open source projects will get paid by the fund. Fund will be transferred either directly to a project or to developers via the Github Sponsors system.
ROOTFund supports WireGuard
WireGuard® is an extremely simple yet fast & modern VPN that uses state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. Plus it intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN.
WireGuard is currently under heavy development, but already it might be regarded as the most secure, easiest to use, and simplest VPN solution in the industry. We are happy to sponsor WireGuard in their continuous developing as free open source software!
Time to give back to the community
OPEN SOURCE FUND
Kangaroot's ROOTFund is our way of saying Thank You to all the maintainers who work tirelessly to bring you some amazing open source software. We're starting with 25.000 euro to share with open source projects in need of sponsors. Nominate your own project or share the news with your favourite OSS maintainers.
ROOTSTACKS
Kangaroot has developed a number of "rootstacks". These stacks are
- open source;
- automated environments;
- that deliver you a platform of integrated open source components;
- ready to be used by a developer, application owner, etc ...
These stacks will offer you a cloud-provider independent software stack, that can be run anywhere; with the ease of use normally found in public cloud services.
And they can also be deployed on your own hardware, in your own datacenter.
Upcoming Community Events
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Red Hat Forum 2022
Get all the latest news from Red Hat about open hybrid cloud, creating consistency across IT environments and streamlining processes via containers, workloads and automation. Join Kangaroot and enjoy breakouts, demos, ask the expert sessions, workshops and much more!
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Elastic Lunch & Learn
Elastic & Kangaroot would like to invite you to a Lunch & Learn session and share about the latest and greatest from Elastic.
Elastic's team will walk through the exciting new capabilities & updates in Elastic 8.3, focusing on Elastic Observability and Elastic Security.
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NGINX Lunch & Learn
Connect, govern and secure your API
In this session, we’ll demonstrate how F5 NGINX helps ensure the connectivity, reliability, and security of your APIs, wherever they are deployed.
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Apply now for our fund
FAQ
Your questions answered
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How long does it take for my application to get reviewed?
15 - 30 days after your application is submitted.
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What are the next steps?
Once your application is submitted, there is no additional steps. Our team will reach out to you in the next 15-30 days with the status of your application.
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What's the last date to apply?
We do not have a last date, this is a rolling fund and will stay active through out the year.
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Are there any requirements?
You're not a company or received funding (we want to give the opportunity to independent maintainers) and have a public project on GitHub.
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Do we need to do anything in return?
Abide by OSS best practices.
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Who do we reach out to for additional questions?
Write to us at community@kangaroot.net