[tbabej]

In my opinion, it's less about the amount and more about setting an example that this is something that moral companies should be doing.

My startup sponsors 25 projects/developers on Github [0], curl including, and none of them with a significant amount of money. However, if majority of companies that use OSS were to do so, the amount of funding would suddenly be a game-changer for almost all of these projects.

[0]: https://github.com/orgs/ProteinQure/sponsoring

[notpushkin]

My little one man agency supports 17 organizations now: https://github.com/orgs/A-Edge/sponsoring (+1 on OpenCollective)

Total amount was around $175/mo at one point, though recently I had to cut it back (now at $85, at $5/mo per project) when I switched from a paid project to a pre-revenue “startup” I'm now working on.

Not as sexy as $10'000 donations, of course :^) Hopefully I can scale it back up when my financial situation gets more sound.

[solarkraft]

A lot of people each pitching in an insignificant amount suddenly make up a ton. I think most of us have a Netflix subscription's worth to spare for the things that enable us to make money (but even less still totally matters).