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It would be great if the HN community could nominate maintainers or projects they know who's super helpful & impactful. We hope that by creating awareness about the issue we can also help increase the funds going to that maintainers.
https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink by @vadimdemedes (React renderer for CLI)
https://github.com/platformio by @ivankravets (embedded development platform)
Some projects from Ukrainian maintainers come to mind: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/ https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink by @vadimdemedes (React renderer for CLI) https://github.com/platformio by @ivankravets (embedded development platform)
The developer of Protomaps ( https://protomaps.com/blog ) is doing really cutting-edge work in the geospatial space and is taking sponsorships: https://github.com/protomaps
Basically all of open source needs contributors and sponsorship. If you work for a company, get them to allocate some funding and employee hours towards the projects they use, including deep dependencies. The FOSSjobs resources wiki has a Patronage section that could be useful for the funding part. https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
Related, I wish more companies do things like Google's Summer of Code to promote open source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code