AzuraCast is Participating in FundOSS!

Hello sponsors!

Thank you so much for your continued contribution to the AzuraCast project. Your support helps us continue to develop new features and steadily improve the project's performance and user-friendliness. In just the last month, we've been working hard to roll out heavily-requested new features like Podcast support, which is now available for beta testing in our Rolling Release branch.

I'm reaching out today to let you know about an exciting opportunity to stretch your donation dollars even farther with a new fundraising and donation matching program called FundOSS.

FundOSS is a collaborative effort between OpenCollective, GitCoin and several other open-source sustainability projects to reimagine how we fund open-source projects by employing a principle called Democratic Funding, where even small donations from individuals supporting an open-source project like ours are multiplied, sometimes resulting in exponential matching donations. The algorithm they use for this is a quadratic formula that heavily favors numerous smaller donations instead of a small number of large ones. In our case, that means that a $5 donation could result in $40 of matched funds, a $10 donation could yield $60, a $20 donation could yield $80, and so on. As you can see, this algorithm incentivizes getting as many individual donors as possible to show the project's widespread use and popularity in the community.

FundOSS's pilot funding round started today and ends in 12 days, and we're pleased to announce that AzuraCast was selected as one of the initial participants in this first funding round!

Because this is a limited-time funding round, this doesn't take the place of the ongoing support we receive from channels like this one. Your ongoing support here still makes a huge impact in our project's sustainability; this is just an opportunity to make a small one-time donation to show your support for AzuraCast and help us qualify for additional matching funds to help keep our project going.

Thank you for reading, and thank you as always for your generosity and support of the AzuraCast project.

-Buster Neece, Lead Software Developer, AzuraCast