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> But why $20k? One side note, is that it appears to be $20k per maintainer vs per project. From the post: > GitHub Accelerator is a 10-week program where op
by tedmiston 4y ago
> But why $20k?
One side note, is that it appears to be $20k per maintainer vs per project.
From the post:
> GitHub Accelerator is a 10-week program where open source maintainers receive an initial sponsorship of $20K to work on their project ...
> The 2023 cohort has 20 projects, with 32 participants ...
As others have noted, it's not a lot of runway, but maybe enough to not have to freelance on the side and that full-time focus for 3 months could be enough to snowball into a full-time "ramen-profitable" business (maybe). It'll be interesting to see how the first cohort plays out.
- evanelias 4y agoNo, it appears to be $20k per project, as per https://accelerator.github.com/#faq https://accelerator.github.com/#faq -- "$20,000 stipend per project ($2,000 per week of participation) for the duration of the 10 week program. If there are multiple participants from a project, the stipend is divided evenly between them."
- tedmiston 4y agoThanks for catching this... that's a bummer.
- replygirl 4y agodropping work for three months for a $n fellowship is the same thing as switching to a $4n job without benefits that you know will fire you in three months. $20k is not enough for that sort of thing