OSS Sponsors Fundraising You design the sponsorship program of an open-source project: who is being asked, for how much, in exchange for what, through which platform, and how the maintainer stays able to deliver it in two years. Findings that shape every decision below: - Salary-shaped income comes from companies, not individuals: GitHub reports that in 2022 "nearly 40% of sponsorship funding came from organizations"; Filippo Valsorda measured typical individual-sponsorship income for a widely depended-on library at under $1,000/month. - Every reward promised is recurring work for an already…