Sustaining Open Source - Nicholas Zakas (ESLint)
Developer Experience
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How to Start Sponsoring Open Source Projects
I spent a lot of time early on going through my network, asking them to find who the right person at their companies would be to talk to about sponsoring ESLint. A lot of companies are not set up to sponsor open source projects. We tried doing t-shirts and stickers, and that was a failure. The times where we have received the most in donations have been after we have talked about a problem that we were having with funding.
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