Posit’s progress and renewed commitment to the Open Source Pledge

It’s been one year since Posit publicly committed to the Open Source Pledge to further uphold our long-held mission to create and sustain open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication.

We aim to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone for the next 100 years, and open source is the foundation of this mission. While we are proud producers of major open-source software ourselves, we recognize that our work depends on the robust global ecosystem. We are incredibly grateful to the developers and maintainers who sustain this movement, and we are committed to supporting the open-source tools that we all rely on.

When we published our original post, we detailed our contributions to open-source projects and foundations, totalling over $493,000 in the previous 12 months. We promised the community that we would continue to be a steward and investor in the open-source ecosystem that powers data science. We are thrilled to share the results of the pledge over the past years and reaffirm our commitment for the future.

The pledge requires us to invest at least $2,000 per developer, of which we have 160. We have once again exceeded that benchmark. We contributed more than $750,000 to open-source projects and organizations, an investment that equates to approximately $4,700 per developer.

We continued our support for major foundations to ensure long-term stability and growth for foundational projects:

• NumFOCUS, $129,245 (to support the open-source scientific computing stack in Python, including cornerstone projects like NumPy, Pandas, and Jupyter).
• The DuckDB Foundation, $119,000 (to support DuckDB, an innovative, high-performance analytical data management system).
• The R Consortium, $100,000 (to support projects and infrastructure that benefit the R language community globally).
• The Eclipse Foundation, $56,070 (to support https://open-vsx.org/, the open registry for VS Code extensions used by Positron and other VS Code forks).
• The Linux Foundation, $21,800 (to support the core of the Linux operating system).
• The R Foundation, $10,000 (to support the official infrastructure for R).

A significant portion of our investment (over $290,900) was allocated directly to individual contributors working on critical projects such as R Markdown and pandoc, as well as smaller projects through GitHub sponsors (approximately $32,000), the California Polytechnic State University Foundation ($5,000), the Open Source Collective ($3,900), and the MathJax Consortium ($500).

We continue to encourage other organizations that benefit from open-source software to join the Open Source Pledge and contribute financially to the ecosystem they rely on. Thank you for being part of this journey.