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@ossgrantwire
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75subscribers
+4 since we began measuring on 8 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| 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 | 12 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 12 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ossgrantwire |
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 28 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 96% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 2026, 13:00 | 75 | +1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 19:17 | 74 | +2 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 07:54 | 72 | +1 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 23:31 | 71 | no change |
| 8 Aug 2026, 09:00 | 71 | first reading |
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 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 8 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
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
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…
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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.
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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 1 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Sov’s OSS Grant Wire” (@ossgrantwire), 75 subscribers as measured 1 October 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.