@lupyuen "The world runs on open source. It’s not just on our websites; open source is pervasive in our daily lives. However, despite funding through foundations, most open source contributors still do not receive meaningful financial support. This means many developers, and especially those from underrepresented groups, cannot work on open source—or if they do it comes at a personal cost. Our goal is to make careers in Open Source possible."

I believe they don't understand Open Source. We support improving the open source code that is used by corporations to make closed source code. That's what I read it as. I think the foundations reference includes the FSF and EFF. Double speak and subtitle shots at Foundations that help protect Open Source. They also forgot to capitalize the Proper Noun that was the whole point of the article.

GitHub likely has a big event planned in the future. It could benefit Open Source and FLOSS but it could also harm them. Scanning code to make programming easier and persuading developers to work on certain projects. Perhaps they plan on making a programmer centric business.