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   by cavneb 9y ago

   Yes, we are a way for sponsors and developers to connect. We do not tell developers where in their code to place the banner. In hindsight, this may have been part of the problem. Perhaps we should have been more rigid in how we allow develo
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   by cavneb 9y ago

   Carbon Ads is a wonderful company. They provide an excellent service. However, per Rollbar, Code Sponsor performed better than they did at about 1/3 the cost. What does this mean for the developer? Scaling. Rollbar was able to scale th
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   by cavneb 9y ago

   Thank you so much for this! :hugs:
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   by cavneb 9y ago

   Thank you
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   by cavneb 9y ago

   This was a manual process, but we do have several projects like this sponsored.
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   by cavneb 9y ago

   60% of all traffic through Code Sponsor came from Github. 15% came from ad blocked traffic (I have no idea the referer). About 15% came from websites and then the remainder came from different repository websites (dockerhub, npm, etc). I ag
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   by cavneb 9y ago

   Donate buttons don’t work. They are asking for money from other developers. Imagine 100 developers in a room and each one takes out their purse or wallet and hands a dollar to the left. It’s not scalable, and it feels like begging. Code Spo
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   by cavneb 9y ago

   What other solutions do we have to provide scalable funding to open source projects? This comment really frustrates me. Do we put more buttons on our repos asking for money from other developers? Do we try to find corporate sponsorship and
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   by cavneb 9y ago

   Unfortunately, Github is where open source lives. The success that Code Sponsor saw was due to the minimal steps it took for a developer to start getting paid for open source. Asking developers to move their open source projects to Gitlab w
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    Hi. This is Eric, the founder of Code Sponsor. I appreciate your concern here. Please understand that for the last four months, I’ve been getting up at 5am and working till 7:30. I then would go to my day job every day and then get back to
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    Hi Diemorz, I’m very glad for your comment. This is something that I can honestly say I have not considered. My biggest fears were 1) making sure that the whole idea isn’t rejected by the developer community and 2) making sure I have enough
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    For example, the sponsor pays $1,000 for 1 month of sponsorship. The developers gets 40% of that ($400). The remainder ($600) goes into building Code Sponsor. Understand that this has been a side project since day one. I have not taken any
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    Depending on the project, we have seen between 0.4 - 1.2% click rate on average.
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    Oh.. it wasn't. I posted it in response to your query :-D Like I said, I'm an open book. I just want to help sustain OSS.
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    Thank you, Kent! Your OSS efforts deserve to be funded!
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    October 2017 Income from sponsors: $ 7,437.20 Paid to developers: $ 3,413.20 ----- Kept by CodeSponsor: $ 4,024.00 This does not take into account the $6,000 we spent to become a sponsor for Git
17. 77.▲
    by cavneb 9y ago

    This is great feedback. Thank you.
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    Owner here. Github is responsible for about 60% of the overall traffic. We support websites as well such as https://jsbin.com and https://codesandbox.io . I don’t believe Github would ever want to buy Code Sponsor. Th
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    Owner here. I agree 100%. From day one I have been promised to never do any tracking or remarketing. I don’t sell data. I have followed the Ethically advertising guidelines established by Read the Docs. If you are a developer on the platfor
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    This data comes from a talk given by Nadia Engbhal entitled “Consider the Maintainer”. This data originally comes from here: https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/Truck-Factor/blob/master/READM...
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    Fighting for Open Source Sustainability: Introducing Code Sponsor(medium.com)

    69 points by cavneb 9y ago|31 comments
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    Gitcoin Joins ConsenSys, Announces Pilot Projects(medium.com)

    3 points by cavneb 9y ago|0 comments
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    SustainOSS: The Report(medium.com)

    6 points by cavneb 9y ago|0 comments
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    This is Eric, the founder of Code Sponsor. I assure you there's nothing sketchy with what we do. There is, however, something sketchy about this developers abuse of it. We have removed ourselves from their repository.
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    Even though GitHub may say we cannot do this on their website, it does not prevent developers from generate a healthy side income building OSS. Here's a blog post we just released which includes links to different developer repos and s
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    We have advocates at GitHub and are in discussions with their compliance team. Code Sponsor is not directly tied to GitHub for it to be successful. Many of our developers are making money through different channels such as npm or their own
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    Most of those using Code Sponsor are very new. I can tell you that so far this month (Sept 11) we are payout out $511 USD to developers. Last month we paid one developer over $130. It's not life changing, but it's excellent supple
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    by cavneb 9y ago

    As much as I agree with the sentiment behind this post, I disagree with the implementation. The nature of open source code is collaboration. Paying for collaboration seems like it would hinder progress altogether and possibly direct the pro
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    by cavneb 12y ago

    Thank you for making this available. Great job Mozilla!
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    by cavneb 12y ago

    Amazing article. A must read for anyone in the programming industry.