I appreciate the intent here! For positive vibes, I think emails or social media is good. But for money, I'm not sure it would work for me. I'm just going to copy what I wrote in r/rust[1]:
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I think the various things people are trying to do to fund open source contributors and maintainers is a great thing. I love what GitHub is doing with its sponsorships and encourage folks to use that if it helps them.
But for me, I do not want money to get involved with what is right now a volunteer activity that I perform exclusively in my free time. If I accepted money, then at least for me personally, it would magnify a lot of the problems I struggle with in my blog post. I do not want that.
If folks insist, then I generally advocate donating it to a cause they find important. The ones I like are Wikipedia, The Internet Archive and Rails Girls.
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I think the various things people are trying to do to fund open source contributors and maintainers is a great thing. I love what GitHub is doing with its sponsorships and encourage folks to use that if it helps them.
But for me, I do not want money to get involved with what is right now a volunteer activity that I perform exclusively in my free time. If I accepted money, then at least for me personally, it would magnify a lot of the problems I struggle with in my blog post. I do not want that.
If folks insist, then I generally advocate donating it to a cause they find important. The ones I like are Wikipedia, The Internet Archive and Rails Girls.
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[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/er4qrn/my_foss_story/...