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Mozilla Dishes Out Money to Projects It Rellies On

 

Mozilla gives away half a million dollars to FOSS projects

 

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A month ago, Mozilla announced MOSS, the Mozilla Open Source Support project, during which it planned to give away $1 million / €0.91 million to open source projects it relied on.

 

After allowing its community to submit projects they used and then letting the project owners sign up for the program, the Foundation members have now announced the first batch of donations the MOSS initiative will make.

 

In total, seven projects were awarded money donations for a total of $503,000 / €459,000 out of the $1 million / €0.91 million.

 

The big projects

 

≫        Bro - $200,000 / €182,000 -> network monitoring software, used for Mozilla's intrusion detection system. The Bro team plans to use the donation to build a modules and plugins repository for Bro.

 

≫        Django - $150,000 / €137,000 -> Python framework, used for Mozilla's websites. Django plans to use the money to improve support for WebSockets.

 

≫        Mercurial - $75,000 / €68,500 -> source code version control system, used to manage some of Mozilla's source code repositories. Mercurial wants to use the money to improve the UI and support for the "blame" command.

 

The smaller projects

 

≫        Read The Docs - $38,000 / €44,000 -> Web service for building documentation, used for various Mozilla docs pages. The project wants to use the donation to add the ability to generate doc pages from code, without installing it first.

 

≫        Discourse - $25,000 / €22,800 -> forum, used inside the Mozilla community pages. The Discourse team wants to improve mailing list support.

 

≫        CodeMirror - $20,000 / €18,200 -> Web-based source code editor, used inside Mozilla's Developer Tools and Thimble projects. The dev team wants to use this donation to improve RTL (right-to-left) languages.

 

≫        Buildbot - $15,000 / €13,700 -> continuous build and integration system, used almost everywhere at Mozilla. The project wants to use this money to improve Amazon EC2 support, the APIs, tests, and documentation.

 

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