link: https://antfu.me/posts/sponsorship-forwarding published: 2024-04-19 author:

• Anthony Fu tags:
• commonsfunding
• opensource

A discussion on “front facing” projects that can find funding and sponsorship directly, be underlying dependencies that find it a challenge of awareness.

Front facing projects should be “forwarding” sponsorships on to their dependencies. GitHub Sponsors makes this extremely inefficient / expensive of tax overhead.

The author Anthony Fu is experimenting with using a personal collective on [[Open Collective]] in order to pool funds and curate which dependencies they should go to.