Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
by wesleytodd on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:43PM
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This limitation is probably the most important thing for me. We need the ability for companies and large orgs to fund projects or GH orgs, not just individuals.
I setup my GH sponsors specifically to raise fund for the projects I work on, but because of the structure it is unclear and difficult for me to feel alright with putting my info on projects I work on with others.
EDIT: adding my link since I guess that is what others are doing in this thread. https://github.com/sponsors/wesleytodd
Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
by ronilan on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:19PM
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> The biggest limitation of the current Sponsors implementation is that only individuals can become sponsors.
Interesting.
Wonder what was github thinking around this. Seems backwards. Stripe should be your sponsor not Patrick.
Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
by dantiberian on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:39PM
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It's a good question, GitHub posted an FAQ a few months ago and talked about this a little bit: https://github.blog/2019-06-12-faq-with-the-github-sponsors-...
> Today’s GitHub Sponsors is just the first step, and we plan to extend the types of sponsorships it supports.
I'm the author and maintainer of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and other packages. I joined GitHub Sponsors so I could spend more time maintaining the 100s of projects that I've written over the years and continue developing new projects.
I'm optimistic that the direct call-to-action on GitHub itself will yield much better results than fundraising methods that take place off of GitHub, such as Patreon.
I feel that open source funding should primarily come from companies and not individuals, though of course I'm very grateful to the individuals who support me. The biggest limitation of the current Sponsors implementation is that only individuals can become sponsors. Once there's support for organization sponsors, I expect to see lots more money flowing through the system.