Paid Open Source Model - Continued
Open Source Committee (Intersect)
ID: 69ea4790d73bae0eb2a99522
The Open Source Committee (OSC), in coordination with the Open Source Office (OSO), requests a Cardano Treasury Withdrawal - totaling **\~ ₳4.6M** to support structured, performance-based open-source sustainability across the Cardano ecosystem over **18 months**. **Key Objectives & Strategic Impact** - **Sustainable Open-Source Development:** Structured funding for maintainers, maintainer needs, and critical tooling to prevent infrastructure degradation. - **Security & Risk Mitigation:** Bug bounties and incident monitoring to reduce systemic protocol risk. (Co-managed risk with Intersect Cardano Technology Team) - **Developer Pipeline & Retention:** Developer Advocacy and related working group(s) to strengthen contributor flow into core repositories and community projects. - **Ecosystem Stability & Operational Continuity:** Measured funding for strategic events attendance/sponsorship, development metrics tracking, and public reporting. **What’s New** Over the course of activating the Paid Open Source Model for the first time, via a 2025 Cardano Treasury withdrawal, The OSC engaged ecosystem partners to assist with delivery. Notably, TxPipe, Andamio, STORM Partners, and Chinstrap Community. **Other Program Updates:** - The **Developer Advocate** program was originally and continues to be paid in ADA. In the future, the Developer Advocate Program will always be paid in ADA, in an effort to continue inspiring wider use of and activity on the Cardano Blockchain. - The **Strategic Presence **(formerly Travel and Events) program requires fiat transactions as most travel and sponsorship costs are commonly billed in USD. When and where available reimbursement payments are made in ADA. The OSC seeks to steward treasury spend with additional transactions on the Cardano Blockchain. **NOTE:** The execution of the work packages outlined in the proposal is contingent on the IntersectMBO budget proposal's approval.
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Each criterion is worth between 1 and 4 points. The score is the points earned out of the points on criteria that have been answered — shown as a percentage. Green is 75% or higher, Amber is 50–74%, and Red is below 50%.
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Criteria can also be marked Not applicablewhen they don't fit the proposal — for example, "open source" doesn't apply to a DAO governance proposal with no software output. Those are excluded from the score entirely, neither helping nor hurting.
Green requires 80% coverage. If less than 80% of the applicable criteria (by points) have been answered, the verdict stays at Amber — "pending review" — even when every answered criterion passes. This proposal's coverage is currently 68% (13 of 19 applicable criteria answered). The auto-calculated band would have been Green, but coverage is below the threshold so the verdict is shown as Amber to flag that judgment criteria are still pending.
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