Chad Whitacre

    Blogs Published by Chad Whitacre

    We Just Gave $750,000 to Open Source Maintainers

    Open Source
    Sentry started out as an Open Source side project in 2008. Today we are a Fair Source company with 100,000+ organizations on our SaaS and $100M+ ARR, but we hav...
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    Sentry is now Fair Source

    Open Source
    Today we’re launching Fair Source, a new approach to software sharing that is safe for companies to adopt and developers to use. Before Fair Source, companies t...
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    Now’s The Time For Delayed Open Source

    Open Source
    Sentry was born and bred in the Open Source community, and we very much think of ourselves as part of it today. One thing we’ve learned together over the years ...
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    Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding

    Open Source
    Sentry started life in 2008 as an unlicensed, 71-line Django plugin. The next year we began publishing it under BSD-3, and ten years later we switched to the Bu...
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    We Just Gave $500,000 to Open Source Maintainers

    Open Source
    Want to hear more? Register for “The Future of Open Source: The State of Sustainability”, on October 26. Sentry is an Open Source-aligned company, and our missi...
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    Sentry's Open Source Values

    Open Source
    This is the 25th year of the Open Source movement, and as with any social enterprise there is a constant effort to maintain and at times renegotiate the meaning...
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    We Just Gave $260,028 to Open Source Maintainers

    Open Source
    Sentry is an Open Source-aligned company, and it’s important to us to financially support our non-commercial colleagues in the community as we continue to enjoy...
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    Yes, Open Source Is Sustainable

    Open Source
    Two months ago, we announced our annual investment in open source maintainers, mostly folks whose work we depend on to deliver Sentry to you, plus a few researc...
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    We Just Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers

    Open Source
    Sentry is an Open Source-aligned company. We started out in 2008 as a small open source side project, and we grew within the community for years before commerci...
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    Hacktoberfest is Upon Us

    Open Source
    Ah, October. Pumpkin spice fills the nostrils of Northern Hemispherians, spring stirs the air in the South, and DigitalOcean & Friends bring us yet another inst...
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