Summary

GitHub Sponsors is a platform that allows the developer community to financially support open source projects and maintainers directly through GitHub. It facilitates funding open source developers, making open source a viable career path and supporting the digital infrastructure dependent on open source software.

Features

• Maintainers can create a sponsorship page with buttons displayed on their GitHub profiles and repositories.
• Sponsors can find and fund dependencies with a single, flexible transaction.
• Global support across 103 regions with over 4,200 sponsoring organizations.
• Tools for bulk sponsorship and discovery.
• Flexible payment options including invoiced billing for corporations.

For Maintainers

Developers can join GitHub Sponsors, set up sponsorship tiers, complete tax and bank details, and enable two-factor authentication to receive payments.

For Sponsors

Sponsors can efficiently fund open source dependencies and projects they rely on in a single transaction, benefiting from worldwide recommendations and bulk management tools.

Purpose

GitHub Sponsors promotes sustainability in open source projects by enabling funding mechanisms that encourage contributions and maintainers' livelihood, fostering more software development for the global community.