At the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), held in July in Portland, Oregon, a four-person panel moderated by Rob Lanphier of the Wikimedia Foundation weighed in on financial incentives in open source. Donald Smith of the Eclipse Foundation, Leslie Hawthorn (formerly of Google), independent developer Todd Crowe, and Stormy Peters of the GNOME Foundation explored some of the models for providing financial incentives and how companies and communities might work together.