Scalar Joins the Open-Source Pledge

Sep 1st, 2024

When we met Chad Whitacre at the Open-Source Summit in Seattle earlier this year, we instantly bonded over all things open-source! He also told me the very early stages of the Open-Source Pledge that Sentry was starting and I couldn't have been more excited about joining it.

What is OSS Pledge?

You can read more about it here , but in short, it's paying Open Source maintainers. The minimum to participate is $2,000 per full-time employed developer per year.

How much Scalar Gives

We have donated $25,569.34 USD so far in 2024, which equates to $3,652.76 USD per Scalar Employee. Here is a list of who we donate to on a monthly basis and single donations for open-source foundations:

• litestar-org $250/month (LiteStar)

• SaltyAom $300/month (ElysiaJS)

• colinhacks $99/month (Zod)

• tiangolo $500/month (FastAPI)

• yusukebe $100/month (Hono)

• marijnh $5/month (CodeMirror/ProseMirror)

• daveshanley $100/month (libopenapi)

• LinusBorg $5/month (Vue.js Maintainer)

• pi0 $31/month (Nuxt/UnJS)

• dmonad $10/month (YJS)

• thibaultleouay $10/month (OpenStatus)

• fuma-nama $10/month (FumaDocs)

• litestar + python (3,529.34)

• algoria OSS Bounty TypeScript Challenge + Daniel Roe (5,000)

Thank You OSS

Most of the team at Scalar have started their Engineering careers because of Open-Source, and we couldn't be more honoured to be a part of the OSS Pledge! Thanks to all the maintainers and contributors whose software we are priviliged to use and build with.

Marc CEO & co-founder, Scalar