# 💸 Open Source Design budget

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/open-source-design-budget/776>\
**Category:** Open Source Design meta\
**Created:** [November 4, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/open-source-design-budget/776 "2018-11-04T15:02:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![jan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jan/32/8_2.png) [@jan](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/open-source-design-budget/776/1 "2018-11-04T15:02:01Z")

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Continuing the discusion from the session we had on this at the summit!

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## What we currently do

- Domain payment via Open Collective
- Stickers sponsored by Wikimedia Germany and Stickermule (initially we used Open Collective)
- Discourse forum is sponsored by Discourse
- Summit expenses are sponsored by organizations: Wikimedia Germany, Mozilla, phpList
- Other events (like FOSDEM, FOSSASIA) we are funded via our day jobs
- Reimbursements and donations done at [https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign/](https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign/)

## What would we do if we had 500.000 $/€? 💰

- Fellowships (possibly focused on diversity)

- Improve Diversity in OSD - outreach, support, funding, education

- Travel funding for events

- Full / part time employees for website, logistics etc.

- Bigger Summit

- Networked local events

- Summer of Open Source Design

- Open Educational Resources (for use in Design Schools etc)

- Fund development on integration/consistency/interoperability between F/LOSS design tools

- Work more with students and education

## Potential funding opportunities

- Mozilla Open Source Support [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/)

- Wikimedia Germany

- DIAL Open Source Center: [https://www.osc.dial.community/grants.html](https://www.osc.dial.community/grants.html)

- Open Tech Fund community lab [https://www.opentech.fund/labs/community-lab/](https://www.opentech.fund/labs/community-lab/)

- Creative Commons Community Activities Fund: [https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/13/community-activities-fund/](https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/13/community-activities-fund/) (what they have been funding: [https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/01/announcing-first-round-grants-community-activities-fund/](https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/01/announcing-first-round-grants-community-activities-fund/) )

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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/erioldoesdesign/32/2895_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/open-source-design-budget/776/2 "2021-01-09T19:58:06Z")

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I’m bumping this topic to the top of our forum thread because we’re looking healthy in terms of open source design funds and, as a community we can consider what we want to do with this!

I have a couple of proposals!

1. We keep the next $ costs of what renewing our hosting and needed costs our in the ‘bank’ as a contingency

2. We keep a $X amount as a general contingency.

3. We take stock of how many stickers and flyers we have across our members.

- Eriol: I have two stacks of general OSD stickers

1. We do a rough cost projection of what an Open Source Design Summit 2021 (online) would be

2. We do a rough cost projection of what a ‘fellowship’ would be and could cover and what we would be interested in that focussing on.

🙂