How Open Source Development is Funded??

Name	Primary Funding of senior  developers	Primary funding of Community	Primary Funding of Organizational Staff	notes
MediaWiki	Foundation pays a core group of developers and a CTO.	Paid staff	Fully paid staff	Mediawiki raises money primarily from  the users of wikipedia rather than companies engaged in the Mediawiki economy. Also the Wikipedia project receives some large grants. The foundation also paid for professional usability work. etc
Apache HTTP Server/ASF	Several large companies (IBM, Oracle, Google) have people on their staffs work essentially full time on Apache Server	Community is mainly around mailing lists and IRC, infrastructure for that is paid for. Events are contracted out.	Hire contract workers for secretarial/executive assistant work; pay for system administration and PR	ASF is an umbrella organization that incorporates many projects, each of which has slightly different arrangements.
Moodle	moodle.com pays a group of developers including the lead developer (Martin Dougiamas), a senior developer and several other developers	moodle.com pays a community manager	moodle.com pays staff	Total staff is 14
Mozilla	MF: Direct support of accessibility programming Core Developers are paid by mozilla corp, a wholly owned for profit company. "With the formation of the Mozilla Corporation, the Mozilla Foundation delegated all their development and business-related activities to the new subsidiary." MF decides who can check in code.	MF pays for redesign of website, work on mozdev.org,	Pay full time staff including ED, treasurer, programs director, programs coordinator etc	1) Umbrella organization - Mozilla Foundation 2) Mozilla Corporation - taxable subsidiary (mostly focused on Firefox) 3) Mozilla Messaging - taxable subsidiary (mostly focused on Thunderbird) 4) 3 independent but affiliated NPOs:  Mozilla China, Mozilla Japan, Mozilla Europe. Has about $34 million in cash on hand in 2008 990 (over $1.2 million in investment income).
Ubuntu	Privately funded by Canonical, volunteers, who may or may not be paid by other companies.	Jono Bacon, community manager, paid by Canonical	? Not clear if there are independent administrative expenses.	"The Ubuntu Foundation guarantees the viability of the project independently of the commercial activities of Canonical, and provides a legal vehicle for continued community direction in the project" "Mark Shuttleworth, as SABDFL, plays a happily undemocratic role as sponsor of the project."
WordPress	Funded by Automattic	?	? Not clear if there are independent administrative expenses.	Recently formed a foundation.
Drupal	Funded by for profits in the Drupal economy, most importantly Acquia and Lullabot for the lead committers for version 7.	Some expenses  such as events management paid by Drupal Association plus some private companies.	Paid by Drupal Association. UPDATE: There is not a paid staff but contractors are paid on an as-needed basis by the DA. See comments.	BDFL Dries Buytaert
Joomla!	Some funding of senior developers as contractors by OSM since October 2009	No paid staff	No paid staff; professional services as needed.

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