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Another key update - companies can now sponsor GitHub projects via GitHub sponsors. That can be great for OSS community. https://twitter.com/github/status/1336

• capableweb 6y ago
  Interesting. Lists the following GitHub organizations as "launch partners": @aws @americanexpress @cognitect @daimler @indeed @MLHacks @microsoft @newrelic @notionhq @rudderstack @stripe @substackinc But no words on what they actually have donated so far. Checking github.com/sponsors tells nothing, nothing on the GitHub profiles of either the companies nor other people who definitely would have received money from those companies if they were actually already donating (which company doesn't have employees using vim and/or curl?) "[these companies] paving the way for what it means to invest back into the open source community " seems a lot like marketing speak with no data published to back it up.
  • conroy 6y ago
    The organization profile page has been updated with a Sponsoring tab, but only two of the launch partners appear to have active sponsorships. Maybe there's a setting they need to toggle to make them public? https://github.com/orgs/stripe/sponsoring https://github.com/orgs/stripe/sponsoring https://github.com/orgs/cognitect/sponsoring https://github.com/orgs/cognitect/sponsoring
    • capableweb 6y ago
      Thanks, missed that page. Of those two, only Stripe has donated to an organization. That leaves us with a mystery about what launching partners really mean.