Google and the Linux Foundation today announced the creation of the “Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers” fund to help provide funding to open-source developers working on Chromium-based open-source projects.
The Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers initiative is to help foster sustainable open-source contributions to the Chromium ecosystem. Google is responsible for around 94% of the contributions to the open-source Chromium project itself and to a much smaller extent Microsoft, Samsung, Opera, Igalia, and others.With Chromium being used from the Electron app framework to countless custom applications, the hope is that Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers will lead to more sustainable development around it.
The Linux Foundation is hosting the Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers as a neutral area for the initiative. In addition to Google providing funding, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera are also part of this initiative.
More details on Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers via the Chromium blog as well as the Linux Foundation press release.
