Ways how to finance ORIGAM development
Customer requests
Customers pay for improvements in the platform
SLA
End customers pay for a guarantee of a service level.
Partnership
Partners pay for a guarantee of a service level, extended support (phone, Skype), early access, stronger vote for new features
GitCoin
What is Gitcoin Grants?
Gitcoin Grants is our quarterly fundraising event that enables open source projects of all sizes to seek and receive community funding. It contains two parts- a crowdfunding round & a large matching pool of funds. Grant projects are awarded a percentage of the matching pool based on the results of the crowdfund.
What is Gitcoin?
Gitcoin’s mission is to grow digital open source development because we believe it’s an essential force for good in the world. We believe the best way to promote open source development is to provide opportunities for builders to earn and learn.
Tidelift
The Tidelift Subscription is a comprehensive solution to managing open source across the organization. It includes the tools to create, track, and manage customizable catalogs of known-good, proactively maintained open source components backed by Tidelift and its open source maintainer partners. The Tidelift Subscription allows organizations to efficiently manage the ways its developers use thousands of open source projects across JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, .NET, Rust, and more.
With the Tidelift Subscription in place, organizations can accelerate development, cut costs, and reduce risk when building applications with open source, so they can create even more incredible software, even faster.
https://support.tidelift.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406294816916-How-we-pay-lifters
Other ideas
- Crowdsourcing
- Government funds