Friday, 10 July is the second Friday of the month, so it is time for the Sourceware Open Office. The topic is "Fundraising for Sourceware".
Last year we successfully completed our infrastructure hardware refresh cycle. We doubled individual donations and increased corporate "in-kind" support for hosting and networking. For the 2026/2027 fiscal year, we would like to shift our budget focus to spend less on "iron" and more on "services and people". https://sourceware.org/financials.html Your small, monthly contributions are the lifeblood of our independence, ensuring that the core infrastructure remains community-run and developer-focused. So please visit the individual donation page: https://sourceware.org/donate.html Please donate if you haven't yet. Every contribution makes a difference. This year, we are also officially launching a new corporate sponsorship initiative, "Securing the Global Supply Chain". This program focuses on hardening infrastructure security, accelerating engineering velocity, and ensuring long-term sustainability through three flexible financial tiers and in-kind partnership opportunities. If your employer builds on or benefits from the stable, independent infrastructure provided by Sourceware, we invite you to become a Sourceware Ambassador. You can champion our mission internally by introducing your management or Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to the program and sharing the strategic benefits outlined at https://sourceware.org/sponsor.html Please come and discuss this on Friday July 10, from 15:00 UTC to 16:00 UTC at #overseers on irc.libera.chat $ date -d "Fri Jul 10 15:00 UTC 2026" Sourceware relies on cooperation among a broad diversity of core toolchain and developer tool projects, hackers, organizations, ideas, and communication styles. The monthly Sourceware Open Office meetings are one way of coming together as a community and discuss our shared development infrastructure. For other ways to participate, see https://sourceware.org/mission.html#organization
