Albertson: OSL's path to sustainability

Lance Albertson writes that theOregon State University Open Source Lab has been funded for the nextyear, following his announcement in Aprilthat the future of OSL was in jeopardy. OSL is now focusing onbecoming self-sustainable long term.

The recent support was amazing for our immediate team needs. Butfor the OSL to thrive long-term, we need a sustainable financialfoundation. This is crucial, as the university expects units like oursto become self-sufficient beyond this current year.

So, our big focus this next year is locking in ongoing support -think annualized pledges, different kinds of regular income, and otherrecurring help. This is vital, especially with potential new datacenter costs and hardware needs. Getting this right means we can stopworrying about short-term funding and plan for the future: investingin our tech and people, growing our awesome student programs, andserving the FOSS community. We're looking for partners, big and small,who get why foundational open source infrastructure matters and wantto help us build this sustainable future together.