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GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.


Why Funding Open Source is Hard
tl;dr: Either developers need to change, or GitHub needs to change

Sponsor @fatfingers23 on GitHub Sponsors
I'm a software developer who works mostly in the atmosphere ecosystem, building community tools and projects to help folks out.
I Don’t Want to Know What “Open Source” Means
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all on GitHub.

The Asymmetry of Open Source - Matt Holt
A comprehensive guide to funding open source software projects


A method for giving credit to organizations that contribute code to Open Source
By tracking organizational contributions in Git commits, we can give organizations more tangible reasons to fund open source and help sustain it over time.
Open Source
These GitHub repositories contain open-source software developed by the Observatory on Social Media for various projects

GitHub - OpenArCloud/openvps
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GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
Lessons learned and mistakes made while turning an open-source project into a profitable SaaS product.

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