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Collective funding, governance and prioritization of a browser engine projects
  • Past
  • Confirmed
  • Breakout Sessions

Meeting

Event details

Date:
– UTC
Status:
Confirmed
Location:
Cactus
Participants:
Panos Astithas, Sarven Capadisli, Tim Cappalli, Tantek Çelik, Joe Crawford, Wei Ding, Sam Goto, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Brian Kardell, Roman Komarov, Philippe Le Hegaret, Coralie Mercier, Eric Meyer, Ondřej Pokorný, Florian Scholz, Michael[tm] Smith (sideshowbarker), Stephanie Stimac, Amy van der Hiel, Chris Wilson
Big meeting:
W3C Breakouts Day 2025 (Calendar)

Today, each of the three main, open source browser engine projects have a steward organization which contribute, by far, the lion's share of the project's commits - 75-95%. They also take on the infrastructure around it, both physical an managerial. They decide how to allocate available resources. Other contributors add wildly varying levels of contributions, but in all cases it is dictated by them toward work that they decide.

But we are beginning to explore some other ideas involving pools of money: The Chromium Fund, Igalia's Open Prioritization and now whole engines like Servo and Ladybird. In this breakout session we'll discuss what we're exploring, questions that are arising and how to deal with new challenges.

Agenda

Chairs:
Brian Kardell, Stephanie Stimac

Description:
Today, each of the three main, open source browser engine projects have a steward organization which contribute, by far, the lion's share of the project's commits - 75-95%. They also take on the infrastructure around it, both physical an managerial. They decide how to allocate available resources. Other contributors add wildly varying levels of contributions, but in all cases it is dictated by them toward work that they decide.

But we are beginning to explore some other ideas involving pools of money: The Chromium Fund, Igalia's Open Prioritization and now whole engines like Servo and Ladybird. In this breakout session we'll discuss what we're exploring, questions that are arising and how to deal with new challenges.

Goal(s):
To discuss the challenges and brainstorm ideas toward greater collective ownership

Materials:

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  • browsers

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