Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships

By Liam Dawe - 9 Dec 2025 at 10:32 am UTC

Last updated: 9 Dec 2025 at 1:23 pm UTC

Framework Computer BV have announced a nice big expansion of their sponsorship program with many open source events and Linux distributions benefiting from it.

In a blog post originally posted October 14th, they detailed a few different events they were sponsoring along with projects like GNOME and LVFS. In an update to the post from December 3rd, they've detailed a whole lot more that have been receiving handouts bringing the total Framework has put out during 2025 to over $225,000.

As per the post this is the current list of who Framework are sponsoring in open source land:

Organization/Event	Type	Sponsorship amount
Los Altos Hacks IX	Monetary + product sponsorship	$500
Daydream Hackathon	Monetary sponsorship	$500
Aeroespacial Association COSMOS at the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC)	Product sponsorship	3x units
Open Hardware Summit hosted by Open Source Hardware Association	Monetary sponsorship	$500
DebConf	Monetary sponsorship	€2,000
NixCon	Product sponsorship	1x unit
KDE Akademy	Monetary sponsorship	€2,000
Labscon 2025	Product sponsorship	3x units
SemiTO-V (University Team)	Monetary sponsorship	€500
RISC-V International	Product sponsorship	2x units
Nerdearla	Monetary sponsorship	€800
Linux Fest Northwest	Monetary sponsorship + event booth	$500
Open Source Summit North America and Open Source Summit Europe hosted by Linux Foundation	Monetary sponsorship + event booth	$20,000
COSCUP	Monetary sponsorship + event booth	$6,000
Texas Linux Fest - hosted by Texas Linux Festival (TXLF)	Monetary sponsorship + event booth	$2,500
Hackaday Supercon	Monetary sponsorship + event booth	$30,000
Rails World	Monetary sponsorship + event booth	€24,000
Hack Club	Facilitated donation	$87,000
Linux Foundation	Monetary sponsorship	$5,000/year
GNOME	Monetary sponsorship	$1,000/month
Hyprland	Monetary sponsorship	600€/month
LVFS	Monetary sponsorship	$10,000/year
Arch Linux	Monetary sponsorship	$5,000/year
Debian	Monetary sponsorship	$5,000/year
CachyOS	Monetary sponsorship	$250/month
Bazzite	Monetary sponsorship	$250/month
NixOS	Monetary sponsorship	€216/month
FreeBSD	Monetary sponsorship	$5,000/year
NetBSD	Monetary sponsorship	$2,500/year

It's nice to see another company put their money where their mouth is. Lots of companies talk about openness and the like, but many don't bother to support all the projects they make use of. For Framework, it seems perfectly fitting for them to get on board with more open source with the nature of their modular open hardware.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Framework, Misc, Open Source

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grigi 5 hours ago

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I have to say, for all their flaws my Framework purchase isn't regretted. The hardware isn't perfect. The firmware isn't perfect.
But they try.
And mostly succeed.

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scaine 4 hours ago

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It's hard to be upset at the Hyprland donations, I suppose, in the face of the all the good they're additionally doling out on a monthly basis. Still wish they'd drop Gnome for KDE though (and by extension, also drop Hyprland), as this feels like the direction of travel these days.

I might just be blinkered there though. I suspect Gnome still has a huge mindshare, probably as a combined result over decades of Ubuntu and Fedora.

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Numerfolt 2 hours ago

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That's good to see.

Unfortunately they lost quite some people that now thinks that framework is fine with sponsoring fascists :/

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Jarmer 43 minutes ago

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This is so great to see!

@numerfolt do what now? Can you link me to some info? Oh it's the hyprland/omarchy toxic communities. I have never been there or spent any time with either, so I have no personal experience but from what I've read: they can F right off and I know for sure I won't be using either ever.

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