alt Hacker News> Government support won't work for OSS at scale — it's too globally decentralized... We recently received US 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity status.
If this is successful in the first iteration, I'd love to see a UK and EU based charities too. That would allow european donors to support on a gross pay basis, and may simplify grants to european nationals too. (I'm sure similar things apply in other jurisdictions too.)
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OSE actually has it on its roadmap: https://github.com/osendowment/foundation/blob/main/roadmap....
Most likely we won't create our own subsidiaries, but will partner with local nonprofits (suggestions are welcome), which could make donations tax-deductible for UK/EU residents.
As for grants, we are totally fine with supporting European open source maintainers now. OSE has a global scope, limited only by the available payment infra and US regulations.
Thanks, Alex. Ticketed here:
https://github.com/osendowment/foundation/issues/26
Will take some time ofc but good to plant the seed now. :)