Flint & Silicon@flintandsilicon

Open Source funding is still an unsolved problem. It shares many traits with traditional nonprofits. Many of them are on a mission and don't have much to sell but still need money to run.

In this episode, Amy Parker, Chief Funding Officer at the OpenSSL Foundation, tells us what open source can learn from nonprofits.

How can we build, maintain, and sustain tech that doesn't betray us if we give it away for free?

At Flint & Silicon, we're tackling the open source funding problem differently: What do we expect from technology as a society? How can we actively influence it instead of being influenced by it? What systems exist, and what systemic change do we need?

Follow me on our journey to explore how we can build sustainable technology that serves the public interest.

Technology is political. Flint & Silicon is a companion media for the ergaster.org blog to explore the intersection of Public Interest Technology, Open Source, Nonprofits and Philanthropy.

Expect audio versions of ergaster.org blog posts, the interviews conducted to write those posts, and more!