The motivation behind this panel is to provide insights to the audience with regards to funding open source projects, manage the community interaction, and options people might find attractive in order to be paid while doing Open source.

We can also observe the sustainability of a project by the amount of contributors, even if it’s code or activities around it like conferences, communities, and NGOs that support the ecosystem.

Python has a lot of packaging tools and what better way to solve the problem than to add another one. Rye is in many ways just another way to try to fix Python packaging, but it's also happy to not exist if something takes its place. This talk goes over all the lessons learned from writing it, what has lead to it's creation, how it's built internally and what we can do to just solve the problem once and for all.