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How We Fund the Web Ecosystem
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Date:
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Confirmed
Location:
Koto
Participants:
James Aylett, Virginia Balseiro, David Baron, Robin Berjon, Andreu Botella, Rick Byers, Sarven Capadisli, Wei Ding, Nick Doty, Rob Eisenberg, Deyan Ginev, David Justice, Brian Kardell, Philippe Le Hegaret, Coralie Mercier, Eric Meyer, Enrico Morisi, Ondřej Pokorný, Florian Scholz, Luke Warlow, Kevin White, Chris Wilson, Jeffrey Yasskin
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W3C Breakouts Day 2024 (Calendar)

The Web has billions of users, and most users have many, many dependencies on the web. The ecosystem around the web, which includes things like web engines, is both incredibly complex and fundamentally critical.

But the model that has driven, funded, and sustained this ecosystem isn’t ideal. There is no guarantee that it will be sustainable over the long term, but beyond that, it already falls quite short of funding everything that needs to be done. There is just too much. Many things go long ignored simply because prioritization is hard, and funds are ultimately limited. This includes everything from new features in popular languages like CSS and JS up to entire languages like MathML and SVG, which have largely been the work of (often unpaid) individual contributors.

In this session, we intend to have a community discussion of alternative models for funding the web ecosystem, from collective funding pools to changes in open source project policies to changes in tax law, and beyond.

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Chairs:
Brian Kardell, Robin Berjon, Eric Meyer

Description:
The Web has billions of users, and most users have many, many dependencies on the web. The ecosystem around the web, which includes things like web engines, is both incredibly complex and fundamentally critical.

But the model that has driven, funded, and sustained this ecosystem isn’t ideal. There is no guarantee that it will be sustainable over the long term, but beyond that, it already falls quite short of funding everything that needs to be done. There is just too much. Many things go long ignored simply because prioritization is hard, and funds are ultimately limited. This includes everything from new features in popular languages like CSS and JS up to entire languages like MathML and SVG, which have largely been the work of (often unpaid) individual contributors.

In this session, we intend to have a community discussion of alternative models for funding the web ecosystem, from collective funding pools to changes in open source project policies to changes in tax law, and beyond.

Goal(s):
To help further discussions toward better solutions

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