Merge pull request #548 from typelevel/spotify-foss-post

Spotify FOSS Fund post

Author: valencik

_data/authors.yml

@@ -419,3 +419,6 @@ zetashift:
 chingles:
   full_name: "Ching Hian, Chew"
   github: "Chingles2404"
+valencik:
+  full_name: "Andrew Valencik"
+  github: "valencik"

collections/_posts/2025-02-21-spotify-foss-fund.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: Spotify FOSS Fund 2024
+category: governance
+
+meta:
+  nav: blog
+  author: valencik
+---
+
+We're excited to announce that Typelevel has been chosen as a recipient of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund!
+As a result, Spotify has donated €20,000 to [Typelevel's OpenCollective.][opencollective]
+
+Our current funding goes towards recurring infrastructure expenses, and sending members of our code of conduct committee for training to better support our community.
+With these extra funds we’d like to expand our initiatives to encourage and support new contributors and users!
+We’ve specifically discussed funding student or first time contributors through an initiative like Outreachy and engaging a technical writer to help improve documentation.
+
+You can read more about the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund and the other recipients over at [Spotify's engineering blog.][spotify-blog]
+
+[opencollective]: https://opencollective.com/typelevel
+[spotify-blog]: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2024/11/congratulations-to-the-recipients-of-the-2024-spotify-foss-fund/