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I’d like to see GitHub build into their product a way for Organizations to set donation budgets per user. For example, Microsoft could allocate $100 annual bud
by bradgessler 4y ago
I’d like to see GitHub build into their product a way for Organizations to set donation budgets per user.
For example, Microsoft could allocate $100 annual budget per user in their GH Engineer team. The people on those teams could then donate those dollars to whatever open source projects they see fit on GitHub.
I know this would require a lot of paperwork, etc, etc, but they’ve already buried themselves in it with donations and seemed to have outsourced most of that to Stripe.
I know there would be some shady shit and scams that would happen if this was built, like people donating to their cousins OSS project that has 2 stars and is a fork of Scriptaculous, but there’s lots of different ways to minimize those risks so it’s a moot point.
Overall this approach would lower donation friction for both the company and the employee and inject a lot more cash into the donation ecosystem.
- zeeg 4y agoAgree! I would love to see this, as its exactly the kind of "benefit" (or "perk" if you will) we were hoping to offer at Sentry. This is our way-more-of-a-pita implementation of getting users voices into what projects we fund, but also ensuring we fund critical infrastructure we rely on.
- Komodai 4y ago