Director of Product & Marketing @ Earthly. Ex-PMM at Segment, Yugabyte, RudderStack, New Relic, and AT&T. Ex-consultant at Deloitte. Ex-sys admin. (Sometimes)Ex-developer. BJJ black belt.
Location
San Pedro, CA
Education
MBA from the University of Southern California. BS in CS from Oregon State.
I'm a marketer, so I'm planning to use GitHub Sponsors differently than intended. My team wants to award hackathon winners; give larger, 1x sponsorships to devs and projects we use or want to support; and generally use GitHub Sponsors to encourage engagement in open source work we care about.
This isn't directly related to open source sustainability, but I wanted to get opinions on this. Is this type of approach a net positive for open source?
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I'm a marketer, so I'm planning to use GitHub Sponsors differently than intended. My team wants to award hackathon winners; give larger, 1x sponsorships to devs and projects we use or want to support; and generally use GitHub Sponsors to encourage engagement in open source work we care about.
This isn't directly related to open source sustainability, but I wanted to get opinions on this. Is this type of approach a net positive for open source?