Open infrastructure runs the world but owns none of the money that funds it. Industry, regulators, and philanthropy each decide what open source gets, and open source sits at none of those tables. The Open Source Endowment is a community-governed fund built to change that: the people who build and depend on open source own the money and vote on how it's distributed. This talk invites you to explores why open infrastructure needs its own money to have a seat at the table, and what we're learning trying to build it.

How modern science gets funded, conducted, published, and preserved was never engineered, it emerged, and what emerged simply doesn't work anymore. This working session takes a real paper, breaks it into atoms, and walks those atoms through a proposed stack of DIDs, ATProto Lexicons, and IPFS. On this walk, we are foraging for the gaps in a technical substrate that enables persistent, atomic, compositional science.