The Open Retrospective Compensation Agreement (ORCA) is a simple, ready-to-use agreement for businesses to share revenue with the open source contributors who make that revenue possible.
Learn more at orcaready.orgThe Builders team piloted the ORCA agreement in Q4 2024 to recognize the work of contributors who have had a sustained impact on Mozilla over the years. Our first $5,000 fund recognized two contributors, Tim van der Meij and Jonas Jenwald, from the PDF.js community. Their work has had a significant impact on the project, and each contributor received a $2,500 ORCA award.
Through the Mozilla Internet Ecosystem Program, collaborator Nadieh Bremer from Visual Cinnamon Studio created two interactive data visualizations of the PDF.js project to identify connections and contributions.
PDF.js Commit History - Visual Cinnamon
PDF.js Contributor Network - Visual Cinnamon
The relationships between open source projects show how enabling contributors of one project often has network effects on other code bases.