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Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
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#92I see nothing but a blank page. Firefox and Chrome.
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#93Governments should do this even on outsourced contracts
There’s a few initiatives being discussed already https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
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#94So it looks like the idea is it goes through your GitHub dependencies, and splits your donation up among them. That’s a pretty neat idea. I wonder if it would be possible or even desirable to try and get some automatic measure of “how much” you depend on a given project, to weigh the split. Probably that would be really difficult to capture. Anyway the current idea is already pretty cool.
I've been working on this idea (https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/06/01/idea-supply-chain-moneti...) recently as part of https://dmd.tanna.dev where you can get a meaningful idea of how much your projects use different dependencies, such that you'd be able to feed in a more meaningful weighting of "how much I use that dependency"
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#95The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.
Maybe 5% is the wrong number, but how do you expect the lights to stay on?
They could give the ability to sponsor their own service with donations in the exact same way they do it for third party FOSS projects.
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#96Folks may also be interested in checking out https://stackaid.us (previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837829) as a different platform doing similar work
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#97I use like 50 different software heavily. Each of these has like tens of developers. I can donate to some and rotate each month, but how about the rest, and dependencies? There is just so much software there that seems hopeless (although there are also billions of users).
Exactly. Many OSS developers work for free. Myself included (I develop some OSS software). And the way I try to be a good OSS citizen is by being constructive and supportive in various OSS communities I care about. You're not going to get my money. But you might get my time, attention, and skills. For free.
The way the OSS communities works is not money but value creation. There are all sorts of value people get out of creating things for each other. People like the recognition and appreciation they get for their work, the satisfaction they get out of doing a thing, the interactions with others, etc. Plenty of ways to get value from creating stuff for others. And sometimes people actually get paid directly or indirectly to work on a thing. It's fine. I'm not against that. Just don't expect/demand me to pay for a thing. And I won't do so either. That simple promise is why OSS works. We both end up getting some value if we work together. And we might even get paid indirectly. For example I have a consulting career and I dabble in startups. So my motives are not entirely altruistic.
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#98Folks may also be interested in checking out https://stackaid.us (previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837829 ) as a different platform doing similar work
Seems to like this fan the flames of is-even[1] type spam dependencies even more .
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#99In case you hadn't seen this yet, GitHub offers this service: https://github.com/sponsors/explore (need to be logged in)
I have no insight but I could imagine that GitHub are going to offer something similar based on that data at some point in the future.
For us the "top" developers on that page are people with 150+ repos that we depend on that I have never head of before. It turns out that they are all tiny JavaScript libraries that we depend on in some repository that's not part of our real product.
I'm happy to sponsor them as well but it'd be cents not euros per month compared to libraries that do the "heavy lifting" for us. At the moment we hand-pick things, also not ideal.
All of that text to say: This is a hard problem, I have no idea how to solve it but I applaud you and everyone who's giving it a shot.
A 5% flat fee is too much for me though, if it had a cap then it'd be different.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#100In case you hadn't seen this yet, GitHub offers this service: https://github.com/sponsors/explore (need to be logged in) I have no insight but I could imagine that GitHub are going to offer something similar based on that data at some point in the future. For us the "top" developers on that page are people with 150+ repos that we depend on that I have never head of before. It turns out that they are all tiny JavaScri…
If you have the time, we’d love to connect with you on our discord & learn more about your experience. It’s a hard problem & that needs a strong open community. Given the recent PayPal incident, I don’t think GitHub should be the only solution.