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Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by dewey »

It's still early for GitHub's Sponsor feature but I'm a bit surprised this is not part of it already.

- They already understand what kind of code base it is and already do dependency scanning for security issues

- They have payment details

- They have the "verified" payment method of a person / project (If sponsoring is enabled)

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini »

ianlevesque wrote: post #9

I really want someone to succeed at this and I like the approach but you need to run not walk to making it usable without private source code access. That’s a non-starter.

Absolutely fair point & this is something we're working on to open source. If you'd like to join the community feel free to join our discord https://discord.gg/fQGqvQdWxq For context sponsorships & donations have tax implications in different geographic & implications for our community. We're working to get better clarity on these points with our beta users.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by Sephr »

The 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.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini »

dewey wrote: post #21

It's still early for GitHub's Sponsor feature but I'm a bit surprised this is not part of it already. - They already understand what kind of code base it is and already do dependency scanning for security issues - They have payment details - They have the "verified" payment method of a person / project (If sponsoring is enabled)

I can't say much about Github but I can say that we're working to open source our project ;)

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini »

withinrafael wrote: post #15

Neat idea. Would it be useful to let folks analyze a repository without signing up? I'm thinking a user may want to scan a large repository and get a report (top X sponsor-enabled dependencies). This might be useful data to present during funding discussions.

I'm more than happy to help, just connect with me on https://discord.gg/fQGqvQdWxq we're currently doing this for a few presentations. It just depends on the ecosystem that specific org is managed under.
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