Mozilla pumps $1.65 million into projects
Company’s support programme had a great 2017.
Mozilla is arguably one of the biggest success stories from the open source community, so it’s heartening to see that it’s giving back so much to the open source and free software movement. In a blog post (which can read more about at
http://bit.ly/mozilla-blog), it’s revealed that the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program – which was created to celebrate and support open source projects that contribute to Mozilla’s work and to the health of the Internet – has invested $1.65 million in 2017.
In the blog post, a number of worthy recipients of the MOSS program are listed, including Buildbot ( https://buildbot.net), a Python-based continuous integration server. Another Pythonbased recipient was the Python Package Index, which provides essential support to the Python ecosystem by supporting the download of over 100 million packages every week. However, the platform it runs on is now showing its age, which is why the MOSS program awarded $170,000 to help it replace the existing codebase.
It’s well worth reading the whole blog, as there are some wonderful projects that are being supported, and if there’s a project you want to see supported in the future, you can submit a suggestion at