The making of GitHub Sponsors

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

• Episode: The making of GitHub Sponsors
• Website: The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
• Feed URL: https://changelog.com/podcast/feed
• Duration: 01:26:12
• Published: 2019-12-01 05:00

Devon Zuegel is an Open Source Product Manager at GitHub. She’s also one of the key people responsible for making GitHub Sponsors a thing. We talk with Devon about how she came to GitHub to develop GitHub Sponsors, the months of research she did to learn how to best solve the sustainability problem of open source, why GitHub is now addressing this issue, the various ways and models of addressing maintainers’ financial needs, and Devon also shared what’s in store for the future of GitHub Sponsors.