TLDR? exploring idea to incentivize organizational investments in OSS work that directly impacts their projects while giving maintainers financial support in the form of donate-for-work or grant.
Exploration
As we explore incentives between organizations, maintainers, and contributors in open-source, one concept is monetizing GitHub issues to create a dynamic marketplace driven by shared incentives.
For example, an organization with a critical dependency could fund a grant or bounty for a prioritized issue. Likewise, maintainers could request funding for issues that improve a project, benefiting all parties. In this setup, thanks.dev facilitates donations linked to specific dependencies, giving organizations the added value of directly supporting improvements they rely on.
Concept Review
Explore thanks.dev monetizing specific GitHub issues, enabling organizations to post bounties or grants for high-priority issues or desired features. Maintainers, too, could identify issues they wish to work on that would benefit the project. To summarize:
- Organizations could fund bounties for prioritized issues, while maintainers propose tasks needing support, creating mutual incentives
- Maintainer: thanks.dev could connect high-quality contributors to funded issues, valuable contributions for projects and the community
- Contributor: has ability to earn while contributing to OSS project
📽️ 1:30 minute video review
TLDR? exploring idea to incentivize organizational investments in OSS work that directly impacts their projects while giving maintainers financial support in the form of donate-for-work or grant.
Exploration
As we explore incentives between organizations, maintainers, and contributors in open-source, one concept is monetizing GitHub issues to create a dynamic marketplace driven by shared incentives.
For example, an organization with a critical dependency could fund a grant or bounty for a prioritized issue. Likewise, maintainers could request funding for issues that improve a project, benefiting all parties. In this setup, thanks.dev facilitates donations linked to specific dependencies, giving organizations the added value of directly supporting improvements they rely on.
Concept Review
Explore thanks.dev monetizing specific GitHub issues, enabling organizations to post bounties or grants for high-priority issues or desired features. Maintainers, too, could identify issues they wish to work on that would benefit the project. To summarize:
📽️ 1:30 minute video review