Our donations to OSS during 2022

Why and how we donated $7295 across 14 projects and maintainers in 2022

By Gonçalo Silva

2022 is ending and with it, we have our usual round of donations to open-source software projects and maintainers. By sharing some details, I hope to inspire (read: pressure) other companies who can donate into doing so. After all, we’re all building on top of this massive and wonderful infrastructure born out of a few people’s skills, drive, and goodwill, that’s mostly free to use. Humanity at its best.

Doist is no different. Open-source software is at our core. It’s our first and largest technical building block, without which we couldn’t have built any of our products. OSS has a funding problem , and we try our best to be part of the solution, by sharing our gains, with projects we use, and recommending that others do the same.

This year, we had our customary budget for donations, inspired by the 1% for Open Source movement. Our engineering teams came together to select some of our most used and least funded OSS projects, allowing us to distribute the budget effectively and fairly across maintainers and projects relied upon by Doist. We also had a particularly slow hiring funnel for a role and leveraged some of its advertisement budget to publicly support a couple of projects related to it.

All things considered, we donated $7295 throughout 2022:

A heartfelt thank you to all creators and maintainers, without which most of what we build wouldn’t be possible. It’s a tough and sometimes thankless job, yet it sits beneath it all. Keep at it and see you for another round in 2023.