In this lightning talk the objective is to share actual implemented ideas that have helped financed the XWiki and Cryptpad open source projects without external capital. For now 14 years, XWiki has been able to self finance writing Open Source code and sharing it with the community. We will quickly share what has worked or not, what has proven difficult, what is tricky in order to keep the Open spirit and what has been miraculous !

XWiki is and Open Source software created 14 years ago by Ludovic Dubost and developed under the LGPL licence. The XWiki software is used by thousands of companies to help them organize information. CryptPad, created by the XWiki team in 2016, is a realtime encrypted pad allowing to share information without exposing your content to your cloud provider. These software have been possible by finding ways to have the XWiki team paid to write open source software, which we will share in this lightning talk.