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Re: GitHub Sponsors
#2cool feature but putting the burden of funding on individuals vs companies is supporting what I call the "open source gig economy" - doesn't work well for Patreon and others - we need better ways to sustain individuals who choose not start their own company around open source projects or work full time at a company supporting open source
https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/03/25/troubles-with-the-open-...
Re: GitHub Sponsors
#3I love this. It's actually huge, but I wonder why you have to apply for a waitlist in order to be able to get sponsored? Why wouldn't we be allowed to sponsor anyone? I suppose it has something to do to prevent money laundry?
Re: GitHub Sponsors
#4cool feature but putting the burden of funding on individuals vs companies is supporting what I call the "open source gig economy" - doesn't work well for Patreon and others - we need better ways to sustain individuals who choose not start their own company around open source projects or work full time at a company supporting open source https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/03/25/troubles-with-the-open-...
In the Clojure community we have Clojurists Together [0] which is just a program that allows both companies and individual (at different prices) to contribute funding the development of Open Source projects. I think that model works quite well.
Re: GitHub Sponsors
#5This seems like it's needed and (dareisay) overdue?
Integrating sponsorship subscriptions into the core experience is sure to increase payments, a la twitch subscriptions/payments (which Youtube is just now copying).
I imagine this will change the fundamental dynamics around OSS projects, but not sure how, nor whether it is all positive.
- If maintainers can see who donated, do they prioritize issues / pull requests? (I think that could be a good thing actually).
- Do companies use GitHub sponsorships to judge the health of dependencies? Will they create budgets to support their dependencies systematically?
- Does this hurt FOSS contributions, because now people start to expect to be paid rather than doing it for inherent motivations? Will this generate toxic politics among project contributors regarding who gets credit + gets paid?
- Will this mean that microsoft gets a bunch of PII on top-notch developers (have to enter name + address info to receive or send payments), and get much more value from that data than I can imagine?
Re: GitHub Sponsors
#6For now, it seems that the Microsoft acquisition has gone well, right?
Re: GitHub Sponsors
#7cool feature but putting the burden of funding on individuals vs companies is supporting what I call the "open source gig economy" - doesn't work well for Patreon and others - we need better ways to sustain individuals who choose not start their own company around open source projects or work full time at a company supporting open source https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/03/25/troubles-with-the-open-...
> doesn't work well for Patreon and others
What do you mean? What's wrong with Patreon?
Re: GitHub Sponsors
#8It's interesting to see the gradual monetization of Open Source. 10 years ago this was just something you did for fun but with the proliferation of services charging for it, the landscape is shifting rapidly. Github are moving in some interesting directions and it'll be interesting to see if they can stay ahead of the competition with how trivial it is to migrate to a rival. I wouldn't bet on them personally but it'll be fun to watch either way!
Re: GitHub Sponsors
#9Leave it to Microsoft to finally figure out a way to get people and more importantly businesses to fund OSS work.
Re: GitHub Sponsors
#10If I click on any of the actual sponsor buttons it redirects to https://github.com/users/$user/sponsorship and 404's. Happening for anybody else?