Scalar Joins the Open-Source Pledge
Sep 1st, 2024
What is OSS Pledge?
You can read more about it here, but in short, it's paying Open Source maintainers. The minimum to participate is $2,000 per full-time employed developer per year.
When we met Chad Whitacre at the Open-Source Summit in Seattle earlier this year, we instantly bonded over all things open-source! He also told me about the very early stages of the Open-Source Pledge that Sentry was starting and I couldn't have been more excited about joining it.

@getsentry & @scalar love open-source!
w @__chadwhitacre @linuxfoundation #OSSummit
How much Scalar Gives
We have donated $25,569.34 USD so far in 2024, which equates to $3,652.76 USD per Scalar Employee. Here is a list of who we donate to on a monthly basis and single donations for open-source foundations:
- litestar-org $250/month (LiteStar)
- SaltyAom $300/month (ElysiaJS)
- colinhacks $99/month (Zod)
- tiangolo $500/month (FastAPI)
- yusukebe $100/month (Hono)
- marijnh $5/month (CodeMirror/ProseMirror)
- daveshanley $100/month (libopenapi)
- LinusBorg $5/month (Vue.js Maintainer)
- pi0 $31/month (Nuxt/UnJS)
- dmonad $10/month (YJS)
- thibaultleouay $10/month (OpenStatus)
- fuma-nama $10/month (FumaDocs)
- litestar + python (3,529.34)
- algoria OSS Bounty TypeScript Challenge + Daniel Roe (5,000)
Thank You OSS
Most of the team at Scalar have started their Engineering careers because of Open-Source, and we couldn't be more honoured to be a part of the OSS Pledge! Thanks to all the maintainers and contributors whose software we are privileged to use and build with.
Marc, CEO & co-founder, Scalar