This isn't directed at the commenter, but the concept above: Can we all come to an agreement that a person running an endeavor be permitted to feed, cloth, and accomodate themselves reasonably?
Specifically, this crab mentality of dashing hopes of someone ending up right side up on a side project or even a nonprofit. Why pick on the little guys who are just trying to get by, especially if they have a noble intention of funding open source projects.
This is something that we really need, and I feel larger organizations that fund open source - not naming names - aren't transparent or egalitarian enough with who and how they fund. So many people do open source and don't see a penny from it. In 2017, if you want to receive any funding for an open source project, you have to be in a certain social circle, very popular, or very fortunate.
There are organizations that horde millions in cash reserves and give six figures to people just for sitting on a board. Then, there are people just trying to bootstrap themselves on a shoestring budget to buy groceries and pay rent to their roommate. It is my sincere hope we are more generous to people just trying to scrape by and not trying to unduly hound them and guilt trip them into not being able to pay their basic living expenses.
$3,413.20 over a period of four months? Thankfully he also had a day job, because we also don't know if he had other developers, or what were his true needs were to be able to sustain his project.