Funding OSS with Mozilla Open Source Support awards (Interview)

We’re talking with Mehan Jayasuriya program officer at Mozilla about MOSS — the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program which recognizes, celebrates, and supports open source projects. Earlier this year we caught the “MOSS 2018 Year in Review” blog post — this post highlighted many of their efforts in 2018 so we reached out to talk through the history, goals, and impact of this very generous project.

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Featuring:

• Mehan Jayasuriya – Website, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) awards program
• MOSS 2018 year in review
• Mitchell Baker on Wikipedia + Mitchell Baker on Twitter
• Mozilla Foundation
• Apply for a MOSS award
• Open source inclusion basic checklist for open source projects on mozilla/diversity
• In Memoriam: Gervase Markham
• The Changelog #335: Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS
• MozFest

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