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Tidelift partners with GitHub, funds 4,000 open source projects

Donald Fischer on May 23, 2019

Today, GitHub announced GitHub Sponsors, a tool to help support open source creators, with Tidelift as a launch partner. Now over 4,000 open sourc...
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Corey Alexander

Oh this is awesome to hear! You guys at Tidelift we're one of the first things I thought of when I read the GitHub Sponsors program.
I'm really glad to see you guys partnered here, instead of having to compete with each other with a similar goal!

I think this is going to be a major shift in open source funding, or at least I'm hopeful! I'm eagerly watching what happens with both you guys and Githubs new program!

Good luck and congrats on the partnership!

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Anton Korzunov

After watching your video I am hesitant to like this article with ❤ or comment with just praise.

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eLabFTW

Sounds like good news :) I hope it'll catch on and work properly.