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Solution: ask your company to sponsor the project. It’s easy: https://github.com/sponsors/libjpeg-turbo https://github.com/sponsors/libjpeg-turbo Ideally, eve

Solution: ask your company to sponsor the project. It’s easy: https://github.com/sponsors/libjpeg-turbo https://github.com/sponsors/libjpeg-turbo Ideally, every developer in every large co would be given some budget to spread sponsorship money around as they saw fit—ask your manager to make it happen. Note that they may be able to register this as a marketing expense, which may be more favorable to your accounting department. (I use this library in PhotoStructure via Sharp and libvips, so I just started sponsoring it)

zdragnar 3y ago
> Ideally, every developer in every large co would be given some budget to spread sponsorship money around as they saw fit If I'm not mistaken, there is a ton of overhead ensuring that the money doesn't directly benefit any of the employees themselves. There are all sorts of regulations around how things like gifts and donations are accounted for, taxed and so forth. Then, you also wade into territory of graft, bribes and so on (employees of company A funneling money into open source project B, which is worked on by employees of potential customer C).
omoikane 3y ago
Near the end of the linked post: How can you help? If every individual developer who used libjpeg-turbo on a regular basis donated just $5-10/month to the project through GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/libjpeg-turbo), we'd have a healthy amount of general funding.
sersi 3y ago
I've tried that in the past and had a hard time doing so. I managed to get the company to sponsor projects like sidekiq because there were some benefits in doing so (even if we actually never used the enterprise benefits) but I haven't been able to convince them to donate any money. They'd just tell me that they don't see any benefits in doing so. I end up donating with my own money to opensource projects I value but I don't have enough money to properly fund all projects I would like.

zdragnar 3y ago

> Ideally, every developer in every large co would be given some budget to spread sponsorship money around as they saw fit If I'm not mistaken, there is a ton of overhead ensuring that the money doesn't directly benefit any of the employees themselves. There are all sorts of regulations around how things like gifts and donations are accounted for, taxed and so forth. Then, you also wade into territory of graft, bribes and so on (employees of company A funneling money into open source project B, which is worked on by employees of potential customer C).

omoikane 3y ago

Near the end of the linked post: How can you help? If every individual developer who used libjpeg-turbo on a regular basis donated just $5-10/month to the project through GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/libjpeg-turbo), we'd have a healthy amount of general funding.

sersi 3y ago

I've tried that in the past and had a hard time doing so. I managed to get the company to sponsor projects like sidekiq because there were some benefits in doing so (even if we actually never used the enterprise benefits) but I haven't been able to convince them to donate any money. They'd just tell me that they don't see any benefits in doing so. I end up donating with my own money to opensource projects I value but I don't have enough money to properly fund all projects I would like.