News announced at OPEN'22!

In March 2022, we 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 arrise.

Kangaroot has decided to start the fund with a initial contribution of 25.000 € - as of April 1st 2022, every day Kangaroot charges a customer - 10 € will be added to the fund. Additionally, customers who want to contribute as well, will be able to do so.

A panel of experts ( Kangaroot Teammembers, 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. More details on the fund, the panel and the chosen developers will be available soon on community.kangaroot.net

Many of today's open source technologies have become very complex to operate and maintain, which sometimes is a reason not to invest in knowing the ins and outs of the technology underneath, and focus on using it and getting the value for the user or organisation immediately.

That's why more and more customers choose our managed services model, where Kangaroot installs, runs, maintains and updates your open source components, so you can focus on using it. This can be either on on-premise infrastructure or on public cloud resources.

We do this for most of the partner technologies and for a fixed price per month.

Kangaroot has developed a number of "rootstacks" these 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 ... You can find our code on github.com/kangaroot

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. Additionally, a managed service model of these rootstacks will be available soon on rootstacks.io

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