Sequoia launches rolling Maintainer Stipend covering 6-12 months of living expenses for open-source contributors Selecting 2-3 maintainers per year, the stipend requires no equity and accepts applications on a rolling basis. It's designed to give existing open-source maintainers financial runway to focus on their projects without commercial pressure. 🔗 Source

Channel
Sov’s OSS Grant Wire
@ossgrantwire
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
71subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 8 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1003598854234 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @ossgrantwire |
| Created | Between 1 December 2025 and 31 May 2026— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 9 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ossgrantwire |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Aug 2026, 23:31 | 71 | no change |
| 8 Aug 2026, 09:00 | 71 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 22 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 27.9%
- avg views ÷ 71 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 19.8
- 20 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- —
- this channel exposes no reaction counts
- Posts in window
- 20
- of 20 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 8 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (22 July 2026 – 8 August 2026) |
| Views total | 396 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 9 Aug 2026, 23:31 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
- Links
- 173
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 9 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
Recent posts
Snyk opens free enterprise security platform to independent open-source maintainers — rolling applications, no usage limits The program includes access to Snyk's newly-released Remediation Agent (open preview, June 2026), which uses frontier-model AI to generate validated, merge-ready security fixes. Eligibility is limited to projects with no corporate backing; maintainers must add a Snyk link to their README and gr…
Anthropic relaunches Claude for Open Source with 6 months of Claude Max 20x — worth $1,200 — available on a rolling basis starting July 8, 2026 The expanded program now covers five distinct tracks, from maintainers of widely-depended-on packages and core committers on projects like CPython or Kubernetes, to contributors with 100+ merged PRs, community builders, and any repo scoring 0.4+ on the OpenSSF criticality sc…
NLnet launches CodeSupply — €400K grant pool offering up to €50,000 for open source software supply chain security projects, deadline November 3, 2026 The Open Internet Stack Scale-Up Programme funds R&D work on packaging metadata, vulnerability tracking, and open licence compliance. Any individual, organisation, or company can apply, with grants ranging from €5,000 to €50,000 per project. 🔗 Source
NLnet launches GeoCommons Fund — international grants for open source geospatial software maintainers running through at least 2030 The fund targets maintainers and contributors working on open source geospatial tools, offering direct financial support regardless of geography. It's a rare long-horizon commitment to sustaining critical mapping and spatial infrastructure that often goes underfunded. 🔗 Source
Cloudflare refreshes community programs with $1M in open source funding for maintainers and community engineers The initiative covers Ambassador and Community Engineer roles, with an additional $1M committed over the next two years — a concrete signal of corporate willingness to fund OSS sustainability long-term. Open source maintainers and community contributors are the primary target. 🔗 Source
EXANTE's Gecko Fund launches €1,000,000 grant programme for open-source software underpinning financial and trading infrastructure Grants range from €10,000 to €150,000, reviewed quarterly, and are open to individuals, teams, and organizations working on critical but underfunded libraries across Erlang/OTP, Scala, Java/JVM, JavaScript, and core fintech stacks. The Kryo serialization framework has already received th…
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PjeSiNjidi2EhKRkt/introducing-no-hotdog-an-app-for-democratically-funding-cool
ishosting launches rolling infrastructure grants — free VPS or dedicated servers for 12 months under its HostingForGood initiative Open-source projects and nonprofits can apply for hosting at no cost, with grants renewable annually. Rolling deadline means applications are accepted year-round, lowering the barrier for smaller teams and independent maintainers who struggle with infrastructure costs. 🔗 Source
Riverlane and Unitary Foundation launch Deltakit Community Fund — $2,000–$4,000 microgrants to build open-source quantum error correction tooling Global applicants can apply via Google Form to receive funding plus hands-on mentorship from engineers at both organizations. Priority areas include error budgeting bounds, threshold computation tools, and ZX graph benchmark libraries, with projects expected to run 3–6 mon…
Open Technology Fund opens $7,000/month research stipends for internet censorship and surveillance work — deadline 7 September 2026 The Information Controls Research Program funds applied, technically-grounded projects tackling censorship, surveillance, and countermeasures in repressive environments, with contracts running 3–12 months plus up to $10,000 in travel and equipment support. Researchers are expected to pr…
MLH Fellowship offers open source contributors a 12-week remote alternative to internships — with stipends up to $5,000 Mentored by engineers at GitHub, Google, and Meta, fellows contribute to real open-source projects across Software Engineering, Production Engineering, and Web3 Engineering tracks. Applications are currently open with no listed deadline, making this one of the more accessible on-ramp programs for d…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @ossgrantwire. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 734,891 of 1,169,250entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 9 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Sov’s OSS Grant Wire” (@ossgrantwire), 71 subscribers as measured 9 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ossgrantwire.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.