Episode 2: Is GitHub Sponsors Good for OSS?

Sponsors:



CacheFly


Panel



Richard Littauer




Jon Schlinkert




Eric Berry


Episode Summary

The panel discusses the announcement of the beta GitHub Sponsors,
a new way to financially support the developers who build the
open source software. They list the features they like that
GitHub Sponsors offers but think the beta roll-out could have
been handled differently. A lot of critical software is dependent
on open source software and many of these open source software
libraries are maintained by unsupported developers. The panel
uses border patrolling drones that are used to identify threats
as an example to demonstrate how everyday life can suffer if open
source sponsorship is geared only towards finished products
rather than libraries like these.
Links



GitHub Sponsors


Picks

Jon Schlinkert:




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning




Eric Berry




Eric Berry:




https://metabase.com/




https://tryshift.com/




Richard Littauer:




https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/momentum-generation