TLDR: VoidZero is continuing our commitment to the Open Source Pledge and donating $48,360 or $3,454 per VoidZero developer to external open source projects.

A year ago, VoidZero joined the Open Source Pledge, an initiative to encourage companies to contribute to the OSS community and ecosystem. Coming from a team of prolific open source maintainers and contributors, we understand the criticality for companies like VoidZero to sponsor projects:

• OSS project donations create outsized value and impact due to wide adoption.
• Donations from individuals do not scale and have less predictability for maintainers.
• Cultural and bureaucratic barriers prevent more companies from donating to OSS. We’re proud to continue our commitment and increase our sponsorship in lock step with the company’s growth.

Our funding selection criteria remains unchanged since last year. We are starting with the dependencies that our projects directly rely on, and individual developers that we believe are producing meaningful impact for the entire JavaScript ecosystem.

In the first year, we donated $31,488 to projects across the JavaScript and Rust ecosystems. As our team has grown, so have our sponsorships. We are donating a total of $48,360 per year, which is $3,454 per VoidZero developer.

Notable projects we are now sponsoring include ESLint and typescript-eslint, whose work we rely on heavily. It is thanks to them that VoidZero can build features like Oxlint’s type-aware linting.

Here is a detailed breakdown of who we are funding:

* Anthony contributes to Vite and Vitest, which are projects related to VoidZero’s ecosystem, but also maintains many other projects. We are sponsoring Anthony directly for $1024/month and counting half of that towards the pledge. Additionally, we sponsor Anthony’s Open Collective account for $500/month, which is then re-distributed to underlying dependencies across the ecosystem.

**Donations made to projects’ respective Open Collective accounts instead of individuals.