@glyph @jacob yea that’s what I mean, the GitHub sponsors...

@glyph @jacob yea that’s what I mean, the GitHub sponsors are empty. I know I don’t donate to every open source project I use or even the ones I depend on.

Like 11 February at 18:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io

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Glyph

@cam @jacob it's a weird sort of circular thing. I actually kind of have a policy of *not* donating to open source, because I have given a LOT of my life to the "community", and I feel like a personal boundary for me is that I am not going to make my personal donations to what are, let's be honest, corporate development teams be a _cost center_ in my personal life. and I've mostly succeeded, please do not look at my domain name registration bills.

11 February at 18:25 | Open on mastodon.social

Glyph

@cam @jacob but also, I am not entirely certain my moral calculus is correct here. I've given a lot but I've gotten a lot too. Am I net negative or net positive on my community contributions? Hard to say. But I have more or less given up on getting corporate sponsors, individuals are the only ones who can recognize the aesthetic merits of open source approaches.

11 February at 18:27 | Open on mastodon.social

that one JNL

@glyph
my take on this, from a denominational funder who changed my perspective re: paying for what pays me- if you don't sustain the things closest to your heart, no one else is going to do it for you, and the more niche the thing is, the more it has to be you, if it's YOUR niche. Tons of people will give to NPR. Only Unitarian Universalists will support UU and its institutions. Different field, obviously, and YMMV.

11 February at 19:35 | Open on zirk.us

Daniel Lakeland

@jordinn
This is exactly my take as well, I fund Julialang, Keepass2Android, Signal, OpenWrt and a few others with small monthly donations because they're super important to me and I don't want a world where they stopped existing because there wasn't enough money coming in.

I'd like a foundation that takes one payment in and then makes proportional payments out to as many projects as I set up. I suspect more people would do this if it were easy.
@glyph

12 February at 4:50 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org