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Eligible projects have potential to receive up to $150,000 in free Azure infrastructure credits from Microsoft for Startups', and the eligibility list: 'Anyone who is a current maintainer of an open source project', 18 or older, active GitHub profile, 'Be located in one of the regions supported by GitHub Sponsors'"},{"url":"https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/investing-in-the-people-shaping-open-source-and-securing-the-future-together/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted 'Session 4 runs late April with each project receiving $10,000, Copilot Pro, $100K of Azure Credits, and 3 weeks of security education' and 'an additional $5.5 million in Azure credits and funding' [this figure conflicts with the $10,000 Azure credits printed on the programme page; see notes]"},{"url":"https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/securing-the-supply-chain-at-scale-starting-with-71-important-open-source-projects/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"reported: 'each project receives $10,000 USD via GitHub Sponsors', a 3-week sprint inside a 12-month engagement, and that 71 projects had taken part by that post"},{"url":"https://opensource.org/blog/improving-open-source-security-with-the-new-github-secure-open-source-fund","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"third-party confirmation of the USD 10,000 per project figure and the three-week programme shape"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The two first-party sources disagree on the cloud credit and the disagreement is the finding: the programme page prints 'Cloud Credits: $10,000 in Azure credits' with a conditional path to USD 150,000 through Microsoft for Startups, while a GitHub blog post describes session 4 as giving '$100K of Azure Credits'. I take the programme page as current and the blog as a launch-era figure, and the record states the page number; a reader should confirm with the programme before planning around either. Seventy-one projects had already passed through the programme by one of the posts, which is a large cohort for a fund this small and is the reason to rank it high: the odds are not Alpha-Omega odds. Two conditions do real work: the maintainer must sit in a GitHub Sponsors-supported region, and the project needs visible traction. A provider record for GitHub already exists in the corpus (github-actions, github-codespaces, github-student-developer); this is a separate programme with its own money and was absent from every GitHub record, so it is recorded as its own finding rather than as a duplicate.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"grant-individual","free_tier_kind":"cash-grant-plus-credits","shape":null}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}