Funding
My open-source projects are free and stay free. Funding buys them maintenance time, and these are the roles it can buy.
No payment links are live yet. No GitHub Sponsors, no checkout. Every role below is arranged by email, so nothing goes to the wrong place. Amounts are suggestions, not invoices.
The roles
Backer
from €5 / month
An individual who uses a project and wants it to stay alive.
- Your name in the project’s thanks file, if you want it there.
- My honest answer to “is this project still maintained?” before you build on it.
Supporter
from €25 / month
A small team that has shipped something on top of one of these projects.
- Name or logo in the project README.
- Your issues read first. Not fixed first, read first.
- A heads-up before anything breaking lands.
Sponsor
from €250 / month
A company that would have a real problem if a project went unmaintained.
- Named as a sponsor in the README and on this page.
- A monthly maintenance window: issues triaged, dependencies updated, a release cut.
- A say in what lands on the roadmap next. A say, not a veto.
- A direct email line to me, answered within two working days.
Funded feature
quoted per piece of work
You need a specific feature or fix, sooner than my own roadmap would get to it.
- Scoped in writing before anything starts: what it does, what it does not, when it lands.
- Built and released under the project’s existing open-source licence.
- Credited to you in the release notes, unless you would rather stay anonymous.
What funding does not buy
- It does not buy private or closed features. Everything funded here ships open source, to everyone.
- It does not buy a support SLA. Guaranteed response times are a paid support contract, which is separate work.
- It does not buy control of a project’s direction, a merged pull request, or a place in the security disclosure process.
- It does not buy silence. If a project is dying, I will say so in public, sponsor or not.
Who does what on these projects
So the words above have fixed meanings:
Maintainer
Me. I review and merge changes, cut releases, and carry the security responsibility. One person, so response times are honest rather than corporate.
Contributor
Anyone who sends a patch, a bug report, or a documentation fix. No funding required, no funding advantage. A good patch from a stranger beats a sponsor’s feature request.
Funder
A backer, supporter, sponsor, or funded-feature client. Funders buy maintenance time and priority of attention. They do not get commit access, and they do not get to close someone else’s issue.
Pick a project, not a pot
Funding goes to a named project so you can see where it went. Tell me which one and what it saves your team, and I'll tell you honestly what that buys.