Gitpod raised $22,600 at the DevX Conf to distribute among open-source maintainers. The conference focused on automation, collaboration, and integration testing tools. Last year's event raised over $10,000 for unpaid volunteers and open-source project maintainers. This year's funds were distributed based on attendee votes, with the top recipients being ccls, hadolint, and patch-package. Gitpod hopes that other companies will start supporting open-source projects financially to empower their maintainers. The conference highlighted the importance of developer experience in modern engineering teams and provided a platform for discussing new concepts and ways of doing things within the DevX ecosystem.