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I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source
My experiment on algorithmic donating $5000 to 800+ authors of the most downloaded Python packages, leveraging data from GitHub Sponsors, PyPI, and OpenSSF.
That's why I find it crucial to fund OSS maintainers in a systemic way to efficiently mitigate risks in the software supply chain our world runs on. Open source maintenance could secure more funding from individuals (~150M GitHub users) if there were more transparent, scalable and systemic tools to efficiently support OSS-at-large. The last but not the least: I highly recommend the fantastic initiative Open Source Pledge, which requires companies to donate $2,000 per developer annually to OSS maintainers.
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