🤑 Run Fund Fest 2023

[chadwhitacre]

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Greetings!

Welcome to Sentry's annual Open Source Fund Fest for 2023! This program takes a lot of work to run and this issue is the central source of truth for coordinating all of the moving parts. This year our budget is $500,000, which is almost double last year. There are two key components to this year's edition:

1. GitHub Sponsors—We are continuing our partnership with GitHub, and this year our goal is to become the first company to approach 100% coverage of all of our dependencies on Sponsors, across three orgs (gesentry, codecov, and syntaxfm). We are dedicating 10% of our budget to this, so these will be small amounts but lots of them and will show as coming directly from us. We expect a number of these to be the first sponsorship that people ever receive.
   
   
   
   

2. Thanks.dev—We were a launch partner for this new platform last year, and our pilot project went so well that we have contracted with Thanks.dev to manage the bulk of our budget this year. The size and scope of our program is quite significant, and the product Thanks.dev is building and the level of expertise they are developing in this field make them an excellent partner for us. We're inventing the future together!
   
   
   

Thanks.dev offers payouts through Stripe (0% additional fee) and Open Collective (10%) and is adding payouts through GitHub Sponsors for us (targeting the 3% fee tier). You will need to sign up on Thanks.dev if you want to receive more than the small amounts we're sending to everyone directly through GitHub Sponsors.

We're aiming to publish our wrap-up blog post on October 24. In the mean time, feel free to comment on this issue or reach out on 𝕏 with questions. Thank you to all of the maintainers who build the software Sentry depends on. 🙏

FOSS Funders

While it is fun and exciting to run arguably the most comprehensive and robust program in the industry for really truly funding Open Source, the only way we're going to solve Open Source sustainability once and for all is for every company to step up and participate. Sentry is part of the FOSS Funders working group to drive this change. If your company has an Open Source funding story to tell, please join us!

To Do

• [x] July 15 - Confirm budget
• [x] July 15 - Update AP calendar🔒, determine invoice due dates for below.
• [x] August 1 - Kick off internal survey, run through August 18 (close before hackweek)
• [x] Receive and pay invoices
  • [x] August 11 - zeroth batch due, missed it this year, hit next year?
  • [x] August 25 - first batch due, including first from GitHub
  • [x] September 8 - second batch due, including final from GitHub
  • [x] September 22 - third batch due - aim for all by here - now just one, from Thanks.dev! 😁
  • [x] October 6 - last chance, ~try hard not to have to use it!~ - second one from TD, we decided to split into two since they're large, make sure they make it through the banking system okay
• [x] Local meetups that Sentry employees frequent? - handled in dev survey
• [x] Review "What's new with GitHub Sponsors"—bulk sponsorships!
• [x] platforms?
  • [x] GHS
  • [x] ~OC~
  • [x] ~stackaid~
  • [x] thanks.dev!
  • [x] ~polar.sh~—not ready, maybe next year
• [x] foundations
  • [x] pay
    • [x] Python
    • [x] JavaScript
    • [x] Rust
    • [x] PostgreSQL
    • [x] Apache
    • [x] PHP
    • [x] Ruby
    • [x] OSI
    • [x] Outreachy
  • [x] logo - https://sentry.io/branding/
    • [x] Python
    • [x] JavaScript
    • [x] Rust
    • [x] ~PostgreSQL~
    • [x] Apache
    • [x] PHP
    • [x] ~Ruby~
    • [x] OSI
    • [x] Outreachy
• [x] GHS
  • [x] sort out sponsor linking (GH Enterprise feature?)
  • [x] create sponsorships for getsentry
  • [x] get balances transferred to codecov and syntaxfm
  • [x] create sponsorships for codecov
  • [x] create sponsorships for syntaxfm
  • [x] double-check final totals
• [x] TD
  • [x] Don't forget (these are things Sentry employees or others have specifically mentioned to me over the past year) ...
    • [x] codecov and syntaxfm orgs
    • [x] last year's recipients - e.g.
    • [x] Fastlane/MNF
    • [x] Moka
    • [x] rrweb - vital for Replay, but we may fund them through contracting? Find out details and record for posterity
    • [x] https://github.com/sponsors/webknjaz (X)
    • [x] https://opencollective.com/json-schema (X)
    • [x] ICCF Holland? (because) - not sure they're recruitable, made a personal donation
  • [x] review draft weighting
• [x] publish blog post🔒
  • [x] update hero🔒 - https://brand.getsentry.com/share/M7C2Nwq1Jypfe1tcT7QC

Press

GitHub Sponsorships

1. "A'ight, beat that. 😤😁💃" (chadwhitacre_)
2. "I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🐭" (chadwhitacre_)
3. "Sentry is giving $500k+ to open source it relies on this year" (zeeg)
4. "it’s insane that people are anything other than thankful" (jarredsumner)
5. "A company donates $500K/year in direct funding to OSS" (gergelyorosz)
6. "YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT FOR NOT DONATING MORE OF YOUR VC FUNDING" (ThePrimeagen)

Announcement

1. "We Just Gave $500,000 to Open Source Maintainers"
2. X
3. HN - 112 points and 36 comments despite being brutally modded at ~20 points - and then modded a second time! rankings
4. /r/opensource/
5. "It's the 2nd year in a row we've hit the front page only to have HN mods remove it." (bentlegen)
6. "The answer I got last year (and kudos dang for the tone)" (chadwhitacre_)
7. "Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source" (cperciva) - HN (not modded! 😁 390 / 180 / rankings) - X

[chadwhitacre]

Can you please review the "NOT FOUND" list (now reduced to 48)?

Ship it! :shipit:

[chadwhitacre]

Any chance we could make https://thanks.dev/d/gh/getsentry/dependencies not indicative? 🐭

[chadwhitacre]

Okay! @nehzata and I just finalized Step 2 of https://github.com/getsentry/team-ospo/issues/108#issuecomment-1771858654 ... a little behind schedule but we're hoping to catch up. Ali is importing now, I will check back in a bit to do a final review, and then we will be cleared to run our first payments! 🤞

[chadwhitacre]

I've just done a final review in TD, there are one or two discrepancies that @nehzata has walked me through, I've given him the go ahead to adjust in a way that makes sense and to proceed with making our first payouts! 👍

[chadwhitacre]

Caught a couple issues:

• Excluded a few more (swatinem is an employee, pre-commit and pycqa are asottile's).
• We need to includes Fastlane, Moka, and RRWeb (from the ticket description). Might need to use Python bonus for this?

[chadwhitacre]

Worked it through on a call and we've got something we can ship. There's always next month if something is egregiously out of whack.

[nehzata]

@chadwhitacre Confirming first round has been distributed. Emails to recipients already logged into TD will start going out later today. Armin & I will reach out and onboard the other recipients as discussed. 🎉

[chadwhitacre]

Woo-hoo! 😍 Thank you guys for everything! Could not have done it without you this year! 🙏

[nehzata]

Public donor pages are now working as expected: https://thanks.dev/d/gh/getsentry/dependencies https://thanks.dev/d/gh/codecov/dependencies https://thanks.dev/d/gh/syntaxfm/dependencies

[chadwhitacre]

Sweet! I'll look at updating the blog post, it's scheduled for 9:30 AM SF time.

[chadwhitacre]

I'm surprised there are only 20 recipients on Codecov, and that some are below the $10 minimum.

[nehzata]

Codecov fixed! Sorry about that!

[chadwhitacre]

Okay phew. 😅

[nehzata]

Thanks for the shout out in the blog post btw! Has been a blast working with you Chad!

[chadwhitacre]

@anehzat Can you link in a comment where our logo is placed? Understood that for Postgres we don't get placement.

[chadwhitacre]

Some feedback on HN:

I missed the part about this being a recurring monthly payout - $180 does clear the threshold of what I'd consider a significant donation, so I appreciate that. I don't mind it being spread out monthly. I think it would help if the process made it a bit more clear what to expect (in terms of the total payout and timeline) in the initial message and/or the UI.

[chadwhitacre]

Calling this shipped!

[nehzatarmin]

@anehzat Can you link in a comment where our logo is placed? Understood that for Postgres we don't get placement.

@chadwhitacre Here's the link for the ones that are currently have the logo https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation

https://apache.org/foundation/sponsors

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/members/

https://openjsf.org/

The ones I'm following up with still are Outreachy, Ruby, Postgres & Python. Let me know who's your contact at OSI & I can also reach out to them.

[chadwhitacre]

Let me know who's your contact at OSI & I can also reach out to them.

Sent to you in email. Thanks!

[nehzatarmin]

nice OSI is also marked as done :)

[chadwhitacre]

@nehzatarmin Last items I'm seeing on the TODO here are:

• pay Python - email traffic on this, is payment complete?
• logo on Python
• logo on Outreachy

[anehzat]

thanks @chadwhitacre

• We just sent the payment receipt & followup to PFS
• We sent another followup to Outreachy

I've put a reminder for myself to follow up biweekly with them about it.

[anehzat]

@chadwhitacre PSF is also done, only outstanding one is Outreachy now

[chadwhitacre]

Found us on Outreachy! 🙌