For public sector organizations/users, this might be a good way to directly support the project without going through procurement, and it can be argued that they are supporting the development of shared common infrastructure.
Even the numerous professional services firms that are deploying CKAN can use this to sponsor development of core features, instead of creating bespoke, forked implementations, with minimal contributions upstream.
Apart from #265, github sponsors is another way for the community to support the project.
https://github.com/sponsors
For public sector organizations/users, this might be a good way to directly support the project without going through procurement, and it can be argued that they are supporting the development of shared common infrastructure.
Even the numerous professional services firms that are deploying CKAN can use this to sponsor development of core features, instead of creating bespoke, forked implementations, with minimal contributions upstream.
@ckan/core @Starl3n