David Heinemeier Hansson, author of the Ruby on Rails web framework, announced a significant increase in funding for the non-profit Omacom Foundation, created in late August to support development of the distribution Omarchy Linux. Within two weeks of the organization’s creation, various companies and individuals contributed nearly $7 million to the fund, on top of the original $8 million pledged. The organization’s total budget was $14.95 million.
Brian Armstrong, head of the crypto exchange Coinbase, and Yunjie Dai, creator of the Chinese game delivery platform TapTap, Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox, and Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, donated a million dollars each to the project.
Omacom Linux projects also took part in the financing of 1Password and 37signalshave each pledged to donate $100,000 per year for the next three years. Contributions of $100,000 or more made by PingCAP co-founder, Metaco founder, and Notion Product Director.
Meta Superintelligence Division transferredtokens to the project for the use of AI tools in the amount of $1.5 million. Anthropic, OpenAI and Fireworks companies donated tokens, each worth the equivalent of $150 thousand.
In turn, the Omacom Foundation announced the provision of financial support for open projects Hyprland, Quickshell and mise, used in the Omarchy distribution. hired Krzysztof Wilczynski (Krzysztof) to work on the Linux kernel package for Omacom full time Wilczyński), which accompanies PCI-related subsystems in the Linux kernel.
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