GitHub ‘Sponsors’ Now Lets Users Back Open Source Projects

guest · May 23, 2019

GitHub ‘Sponsors’ Now Lets Users Back Open Source Projects
May 23, 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/github-sponsors-lets-users-back-open-source-projects/

But even as some companies build multibillion-dollar businesses atop freely available code, other open source projects are the work of hobbyists in their free time.
"You make something great, and then you share it because you want other people to use it. Then there are all these expectations of you."

GitHub hopes to help programmers spread their wealth around with a new feature called "Sponsors" that will enable users to make recurring payments to other users, much like the crowdfunding service Patreon. A beta test starts Thursday.
But even though you can technically host any type of file on GitHub, Friedman says the company probably won't allow people to use Sponsors for non-software projects for the time being.

Sponsors won't solve the funding crunch in open source on its own. But James Governor, cofounder of the developer-centric analyst firm RedMonk, says it's a good step toward making it easier to pay developers for their work.
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guest · Dec 9, 2020

Amazon, Amex to Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program
New service will let companies pay for specific open-source projects
December 8, 2020
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...und-software-developers-in-new-github-program

Amazon.com Inc., American Express Co., Daimler AG and Stripe Inc. are among those joining a new GitHub program that will let companies directly fund open-source projects and software developers that are key to their businesses.

It’s an expansion of GitHub’s Sponsors program, which previously let individuals support software projects and the millions of developers who use the digital platform to collaborate on, share and store code. GitHub, whose parent company Microsoft Corp. will also participate in the new service announced Tuesday, expects the change to dramatically increase the number of contributions.
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Letting companies pay to maintain essential software projects and add new features will eliminate some of the fragility of the open-source ecosystem, in which large companies use community-developed code but can’t be certain that critical programs won’t lapse.

“It’s about building a new 21st Century model of employment for developers,” Friedman said.
“A lot of open source software is written by full-time engineers who get hired by one of the companies that depends on the software that they build. They’re hired into this 20th Century full-time employment model. We don’t think that’s what the future is going to look like.”
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GitHub: Companies can now invest in open source with GitHub Sponsors

Today, we’re launching GitHub Sponsors for companies, enabling organizations to invest in the open source developers and projects that they depend on via their existing billing arrangements.
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