potiuk commented on code in PR #216: URL: https://github.com/apache/comdev-site/pull/216#discussion_r2649916124
########## source/companies/_index.md: ########## @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +title: Companies and Open Source +url: /companies/ +tags: ["companies", "business", "navigation"] +--- + +# Companies and Open Source + +All modern digital infrastructure is dependent on open source software. +Companies must think strategically about how they will engage with the +open source projects on which they rely in order to ensure +sustainability, and influence the direction of these projects for the +benefit of their customers. + +## [Benefits to Companies](/companies/benefits.html) + +Active participation in open source projects provides significant strategic and operational benefits to companies, from talent acquisition to technology innovation and market positioning. + + +## Ways to contribute + +There are three primary ways that companies can engage with ASF +projects. Each has costs and benefits that should be carefully +considered. + +<div class="row"> + <!-- Employ --> + <div class="col-md-4"> + +### [Employ Contributors](/companies/employ.html) + +[](/companies/employ.html) + +The most impactful way companies support open source is by employing developers and other professionals who contribute to projects. This includes not just code contributions, but documentation, community management, testing, design, and advocacy work. + </div><!-- End Employ --> + + +<div class="col-md-4"> +<!-- Sponsor --> + +### [Financial Sponsorship](/companies/sponsor.html) + +[](/companies/sponsor.html) + +Companies can provide crucial financial support through ASF sponsorship, in-kind donation of services, Community Over Code conference sponsorship, local meetup support, and direct contributor sponsorship programs. Review Comment: Yes, I know that "direct contributor sponsorship" is here, but I think it's a very different thing for both contributors and companies, and it deserves a separate entry, because it introduces "maintainership" concept. Companies do not understand that OSS project need "maintenance". They only think in terms of "bugs" and "features". But "maintainership" is so much more and different than that and we need to be very precise - I think - on educating companies that it exists - not as the last point in the "Sponsor" part - especially that "supporting maintainers" is very different from "sponsoring". -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
