Synthèse
Building GitHub Sponsors over the past seven years has taught us a few things: Organizations move the needle. In 2022, nearly 40% of sponsorship funding came from organizations, with each organization-funded sponsorship worth an average of nearly 15x more than the average individual sponsorship. As more companies recognize their dependence on open source, this share continues to grow. Reducing friction matters. Every time we’ve made it easier to sponsor (e.g. adding invoice payments, expanding r
Building GitHub Sponsors over the past seven years has taught us a few things: Organizations move the needle. In 2022, nearly 40% of sponsorship funding came from organizations, with each organization-funded sponsorship worth an average of nearly 15x more than the average individual sponsorship. As more companies recognize their dependence on open source, this share continues to grow. Reducing friction matters. Every time we’ve made it easier to sponsor (e.
g. adding invoice payments, expanding regions, enabling bulk sponsorships) we’ve seen a corresponding increase in funding. The demand to support open source is there. We aim to make that easy to do.