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Updated gramar and links inOSS journey blog #476

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layout: post
title: Supporting the future of open-source
title: Supporting the future of open source
description: A short walk down memory lane to learn about Appwrite’s open-source journey so far and why we owe the community our support.
date: 2023-12-29
cover: /images/blog/Blog-cover-oss-journey.png
Expand All @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Not much later, Appwrite's [open-source version](https://betterprogramming.pub/i

![First ever community contribution for Appwrite](/images/blog/community-pr1.png)

Today, Appwrite has over [38K stars, 800 contributors, 3.5K forks, and thousands of contributions](https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite) made, all with the help, support, and love of the open-source community.
Today, Appwrite has over [38K stars](https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite), 800 contributors, 3.5K forks, and thousands of contributions made, all with the help, support, and love of the open-source community.

![The number of contributions over the years](/images/blog/contributions-2023.png)

Expand All @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ As we grew, so did our team, and we added many more engineers to the team. Many

Another way we ensure funds from the community go back to the community is by giving back the money we earn on swags. For every shirt, hoodie, bag, or sock we sell from the [Appwrite store](https://appwrite.store/), we give back the profit made. In general, we believe swag should be there for the community, not to line our pockets.

### *OSS Fund*

We always knew that if we're ever fortunate enough to be in a position to give back funds to the community, we'd never think twice about it. And with our Series A, we were in that position. In 2022 we announced the Appwrite OSS Fund, a $50,000 fund to support open-source projects.

At the time, Eldad put the purpose of the fund into words, and we couldn’t phrase it any better:
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### **Pro Plan for free**

Now that we have released Appwrite Pro, we can also release our new initiative to give back to the OSS community, the Appwrite OSS Program. OSS maintainers can apply for the OSS Program and use Appwrite Pro resources free of charge. This plan is important to us as we strongly believe in helping OSS maintainers, and we are humbled to have the opportunity and privilege to contribute to the growth of developers. We know very well where we came from, and Appwrite has been built with and by the open-source community. We’re excited to continue our support and to see OSS maintainers reach out to build with Appwrite Pro. In case you are such a maintainer, read our announcement blog to learn more.
Now that we have released Appwrite Pro, we can also release our new initiative to give back to the OSS community, the Appwrite OSS Program. OSS maintainers can apply for the OSS Program and use Appwrite Pro resources free of charge. This plan is important to us as we strongly believe in helping OSS maintainers, and we are humbled to have the opportunity and privilege to contribute to the growth of developers. We know very well where we came from, and Appwrite has been built with and by the open-source community. We’re excited to continue our support and to see OSS maintainers reach out to build with Appwrite Pro. In case you are such a maintainer, read our [announcement blog](https://appwrite.io/blog/post/announcing-the-appwrite-oss-program) to learn more.