Open Source Funding

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Funders and communities are contending with how money and attention flow in open source. The discussion spans the questionable reliability of popularity signals like fake GitHub stars, the PHP Foundation’s role in funding and governance to support Laravel and the broader ecosystem, and calls for sustainable funding models, kinder maintainer etiquette, and practical pledges that guard against burnout as open source grows more complex and exposed to AI-driven pressures.