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2025: OpenFix Launch

Selectel September 25, 2025 announced the launch of the OpenFix program, under which it will pay IT cash rewards to specialists for participating in work on the development and correction of errors software in c. open source The project aims to support open source and help attract more resources to improve the safety and reliability of such solutions. The results of work on the tasks of the OpenFix project will remain in the public domain.

Everyone can choose to solve the problem of correcting or modifying the code from the proposed list on the project website. A monetary reward will be assigned for the work performed, the code of the completed projects will be published under a permissive license with the preservation of authorship and the indication of the participant who worked on the task.

The tasks in OpenFix are divided into three levels:

• Rewrite known open source projects into the Rust language to ensure their reliability and safety. Many software libraries are available on the network, which are used in operating systems and products of many companies. For example, the libxml2 library for analyzing XML documents was left without an accompanying programmer and you can get a reward of 350 thousand rubles for rewriting it;
• Bundling software for Debian so that users get useful programs faster in official repositories. The amount of payments from 30 to 160 thousand rubles;
• Corrects errors in existing open projects. Participants, at their discretion, can select tasks confirmed in Debian bug tracking systems, and then agree on the possibility of receiving a reward for fixing them with Selectel.

The importance of cybersecurity and data quality is constantly growing, so an additional incentive in the form of financial support can improve and speed up the correction of vulnerabilities. The OpenFix program aims to create additional incentives for developers and strengthen the community, which ultimately contributes to improving the reliability and security of open source solutions used everywhere. An important aspect of such a model is the return of improvements to the general repository by those who use code for their products. This forms a sustainable ecosystem, contributing to closer interaction and successful development of open source projects in Russia.