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Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by md8 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:50AM (#34246978)
While I appreciate Indeed sponsoring, but why $420? Are you kidding Indeed?

Your entire business is build around web scraping and using libraries to pull data from other sources. Common, you can do better!

Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by bornfreddy on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:14PM (#34248363)
Picking on one of the few companies that did contribute something will not help the cause. If more of the companies did likewise there would be real money in FOSS instead of peanuts.

Thank you Indeed (and others on the list, especially Spotify).

Edit: toned down a bit.

Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by richbell on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:27PM (#34248551)
In many cases it is difficult to get funding for ad-hoc donations such as this, let alone the authorization to do it on behalf of the company.

I wouldn't be surprised if that effort was driven by a single employee.

Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by md8 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:40PM (#34248756)
Well, thanks to the employee whoever it was
Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by nerdponx on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:05PM (#34249111)
Some companies give employees an annual budget to be directed to charitable donations.
Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by richbell on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:26PM (#34250171)
I've found that companies that do offer that often restrict it to an established list of charities, which is understandable but means you cannot donate to a random guy in Ukraine maintaining a vital open source project.
Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by renewiltord on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:00PM (#34249038)
This is exactly why it's better to not participate. When you participate and people see your name they'll give you grief.

This is the Copenhagen Interpretation of Morality.

Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by md8 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:03PM (#34249089)
Man, How do you remember all this stuff? - "Copenhagen Interpretation of Morality"

Thanks for posting this.

Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by BeefySwain on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:06PM (#34249923)
Some discussion of this phenomenon here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720356
Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by NelsonMinar on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:10PM (#34249980)
420 is a weed joke.
Re:Urllib3 raised $26,000 and shipped v2.0 in 2022 by progmetaldev on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:27PM (#34252820)
Most likely as a joke, such as $69. Posting publicly as an "inside" joke and to be seen with this sense of humor.