Hi FFmpeg maintainers, I’m Sara, a member of the open source team at Spotify, along with Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer. In 2022, we started the Spotify FOSS Fund <https://engineering.atspotify.com/2024/11/congratulations-to-the-recipients-of-the-2024-spotify-foss-fund> as a way of giving back to the open source community and to provide maintainers with funds that will allow them to continue the maintenance of their projects. Recipients were nominated and voted on by Spotify employees and selected by an internal committee.
We’re excited to let you know that FFmpeg has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Spotify FOSS Fund! We are in the process of providing you, the maintainers, with 30,000 Euros to put towards maintaining and continuing the success of FFmpeg. We will be announcing the winners on our public Spotify channels by the end of January 2026. For the purposes of our announcement, could you provide responses to any of the following questions: - What is the vision for the project? - How will these funds go toward supporting the future of the project? - What kind of impact do you think FOSS funds have on the open source ecosystem in general? Is any amount welcome? In addition to the money, does exposure from the fund provide value, as well? - What are other ways you think the community and/or companies can better support open source? Thank you for your work and congratulations! Best, Sara _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
