Grey Software partnered with Code for Pakistan for their civic tech hackathon, contributing a direct $300 USD donation and brokering $1,000 in Scrimba subscriptions as prizes for winning teams.
Grey Software was promoted as a sponsor to participants throughout the hackathon.
Open source infrastructure is often maintained by individuals doing quiet, essential work. Since 2020, we've used GitHub Sponsors to send recurring support to open source maintainers who keep useful software available to everyone.
$939+ sponsored to date, with $40/month currently active.
Sponsoredmifi, egoist, paulmillr, privatenumber, stevebauman, antfu, tibbi, parse-community, rstoenescu, babel, typicode, jsbroks, jsilva-pt, and Charlie85270.
Grey Software has awarded a $600 USD research grant over four months to Junaid Ahmad, who is building language models and speech recognition tools for Pashto and other underrepresented languages in Pakistan. This builds on earlier support: two months of Colab Pro and a month of Hugging Face Pro.
This is the kind of work that doesn't get funded by large institutions. Too specific, too local, too far from the centres of capital. That's exactly why it belongs here.