// ITS FOSS — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
DigitalOcean Quietly Ends Open Source Credits Program
If some Reddit posts are to be believed, Digital Ocean is ending its Open Source Credits program quietly:
All this is based on a GitHub issue where the maintainers of the Node.js project received an email from Digital Ocean notifying them about the sunset of the Open Source Credits program.
Digital Ocean is a cloud server infrastructure provider. It ran this "Open Source Credits" program and under this scheme, they gave approved open-source projects cloud credits to cover infrastructure costs. This helped project maintainers run their projects without paying the hosting bill.
For example, Node.js used DigitalOcean infrastructure for its build operations, including virtual servers, storage, snapshots and backups.
For years, Digital Ocean promoted this program and invited projects to apply to this program by sending them a message via opensource@digitalocean.com.
Note that there is no official announcement on DigitalOcean's blog or social media handles.
From what I see, there is a GitHub issue where Node.js maintainers discuss this email.
There is also a Reddit thread, but the OP doesn't mention if they received the email themselves or which open source project they maintained.
I have scanned Reddit, X and some other social media platform but have't picked up any signals from other open source projects, yet.
Node.js is a big project and discussion is real. So, we can safely say that Digital Ocean is indeed working on ending this program.