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Overview
The Preserve Open Source Code Initiative exists to ensure that essential open‑source components remain reliable, secure, and accessible for the next decade and beyond. By sustaining ongoing maintenance, clear documentation, and thoughtful governance, this effort reduces fragmentation and builds a durable foundation for community innovation.
Funding supports a steady rhythm of maintenance work, governance, and collaboration with contributors around the world. Your support helps ensure that trusted software continues to power research, education, and daily tooling—without placing that responsibility on a small group of volunteers alone.
Why Your Support Matters
Open‑source ecosystems thrive when the people who rely on them also invest in their care. This initiative channels contributions into sustaining core maintenance, transparent decision‑making, and inclusive contributor onboarding. With predictable funding, maintainers can plan, invest in security, and expand access for new contributors from diverse backgrounds.
By joining this effort, you align with a shared commitment to responsible stewardship of software that thousands of projects depend on. Your support signals that open code is a public good—something strengthened by collaboration, accountability, and a long‑term view. Together, we create momentum that accelerates innovation while safeguarding quality and reliability.
How Donations Are Used
Contributions are allocated to a combination of essential activities that keep software healthy and useful over time. The following areas reflect the core priorities of the initiative:
- Core maintenance and feature development to address technical debt and evolving needs
- Security reviews, dependency updates, and periodic audits to reduce risk
- Hosting, CI/CD infrastructure, monitoring, and tooling to sustain reliability
- Documentation, onboarding materials, translations, and user guides
- Community outreach, governance work, and transparent reporting to foster trust
Transparent reporting is a cornerstone of this effort. Public progress notes, governance updates, and periodic financial snapshots are shared with contributors and supporters regularly to maintain clarity and accountability.
Support This Initiative
If you value stable, open software that remains accessible for researchers, students, and developers, your contribution makes a measurable difference. You can support through any of the methods below. Each contribution goes toward sustaining the codebase, improving security, and expanding access to maintainers and newcomers.
Transparency & Trust
Open‑source stewardship relies on accountability. This initiative is committed to transparent practices, including public governance updates, accessible progress reports, and open metrics where possible. Donors are welcomed as collaborators in shaping priorities and evaluating impact.
We publish regular summaries of work completed, upcoming milestones, and the practical outcomes of investments. If you have questions about how funds are used or want to review a specific report, you can request more detailed information through our community channels.