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Thanks for taking the time to register & donate. We’re looking into it now & we will send you a DM shortly.

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.

There’s a few initiatives being discussed already https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

Yeah good point. We should have it done soon.

Thanks for raising the issue. Is it okay for you to forward the funds to other people in the ecosystem?

Thanks for sharing this link, there’s a lot of useful content in here for people interested in this space.

Thanks for the feedback & suggestion. This is something we’d love to incorporate in our roadmap.

Thanks for taking the time to share this idea. We have added it to our drawing board.

More money in the ecosystem will naturally create more competition but I’m sure the community will adapt & evolve accordingly. There’s no shortage of smart people in this space.

I’m actually optimistic about the progress & shift in behaviour. There’s a few companies that are setting a clear example & leadership in this space like Sentry, sourcegraph & cash app who genuinely want to help improve the ecosystem.

How do you suggest we can better word/explain it?

Not to mention hosting costs :)

Sponsors have a slider that allows them to adjust their tip from 5% to 100% of their monthly donation. We figured minimum 5% would cover our compute & merchant fees but left it to the community to decide what we should get. We thought this was the most aligned approach with open source. Totally open to other ideas and suggestions though.

reading this comment made my day :) thanks for your contributions to open source, the least we could do is recognise & reward you for your work. What people often forget is the people aspect of open source. I've done countless interviews with open source maintainers & you are all just awesome https://www.youtube.com/@thanks_dev it's a pleasure working with you & I love hearing your stories

I'd love to help you build out that business case & open source it. Let me know if you're interested https://discord.gg/fQGqvQdWxq We're also started sharing interviews with maintainers who talk about the people aspect of what this funding means to them https://www.youtube.com/@thanks_dev

Absolutely appreciate & respect your perspective. We're passionate about making open source sustainable & understand that there can be multiple ways of achieving this goal. The more ways money is channeled to the community the better...

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.

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

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.

You're absolutely right. When you login you can actually see a list of dependencies & make your own adjustments. While thanks.dev makes a recommendation based on what's analysed, sponsors are able to boost or exclude beyond our recommendations. It's not perfect & has a lot of room to improve but we hope it's a good starting point :)

thanks for the support, let's hope we find the source code for open source success! :)

thanks for taking the time to study how thanks.dev works & taking the time to write about it. Here's a recent article that was also published about how we're different https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/07/thanksdev_open_source...

thanks for the feedback & you raise a valid point, we'd love to look at additional payment options :)

I used GPT to fact check against MIT inclusions & exclusions. In the comments I have tried to share instances of it happening if you hadn’t noticed. I admire your attention to detail but not your hostility…

Github sponsor is a good option like what happened recently @canva but that's firefighting as it's not sustainable for all maintainers to keep asking companies for money https://twitter.com/anehzat/status/1641372068997652480 It would have been better if maintainers ask companies to fund them & their transitive dependencies using platforms like https://thanks.dev/ (I work for them). That helps everyone in the ecosystem.

I respect your opinion & understand your point. Maybe that's because 10 to 15 years ago fortune 500 companies weren't extracting as much value & putting this much pressure on open source maintainers. Here's a recent twitter thread that demonstrates the problem & how the community really feels about supporting maintainers https://twitter.com/anehzat/status/1638809705966612483 & https://twitter.com/ljharb/status/1638958313198211072 I also know a lot of people that have been subject to tech layoff but expected to continue maintaining packages long after they have departed from companies. There's no doubt that fortune 500 are getting huge benefits from the open source movement especially with the introduction of tools that help increase the pace of development, communication & feature requests. This was not the case 10 to 15 years ago...

Yeah, I've been doing a lot of interviews with maintainers & they are the nicest people who are always generous with their time https://www.youtube.com/@thanks_dev They need to know that it's okay to ask for money on things that are out of scope. More importantly the community should step up & support them when they ask for money. I've seen a few people comment "you signed up for open source" & that attitude needs to change if we want to promote the ecosystem & make it more sustainable.

Do you find these mailing lists helpful or there’s more noise that requires you to filter out? I’m on a few & don’t seem to get much value from an open source maintainer perspective.

You’re right, I should have done a better title

Yeah good point, problem is how do small/upcoming maintainers promote their work or get noticed in those ecosystems?

Is there a place people can sign up for the mailing list or find the IRC details?