OSPO Virtual Event
In this talk from the OSPO Virtual Event, Christian Taylor, breaks down the Decentralized OSPO (DOSPO) model, a new framework for sustaining open source in blockchain ecosystems that could reshape how Web2 projects get funded, too.
Drawing from his work building Cardano's open source governance backbone, including a $6M community-approved sustainability fund, Christian introduces the Open Maintenance Framework (OMF) and explains why traditional OSPO models break down when software isn't just infrastructure, but the entire product.
In this talk, you'll learn:
→ What a Decentralized OSPO (DOSPO) is and why Web3 demands one
→ How Cardano's $1.6B on-chain treasury funds public infrastructure
→ Why the governance triangle (legitimacy, execution, neutrality) exposes the weaknesses of foundations, DAOs, and corporate OSPOs
→ The difference between delivery-oriented and continuity-oriented funding — and why most open source grants get this wrong
→ How the "maintainer retainer" model prevents the Linux kernel maintainer problem while onboarding new talent
→ What Web2 OSPOs can borrow from blockchain governance today
→ Lessons from Log4Shell and why upstream contributions matter more than downstream ones
→ How the new Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Frontiers Lab is piloting these frameworks
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