I'm trying an open source funding experiment
Posted: Wed, 6 August 2025 | permalink | No comments
As I’m currently somewhat underemployed, and could do with some extra income, I’m starting an open source crowd-funding experiment. My hypothesis is that the open source community, and perhaps a community-minded company or two, really wants more open source code in the world, and is willing to put a few dollars my way to make that happen.
To begin with, I’m asking for contributions to implement a bunch of feature requests on action-validator, a Rust CLI tool I wrote to validate the syntax of GitHub actions and workflows.
The premise is quite simple: for every AU$150 (about US$100) I receive in donations, I’ll implement one of the nominated feature requests.
If people want a particular feature implemented, they can nominate a feature in their donation message, otherwise when “general” donations get to AU$150, I’ll just pick a feature that looks interesting.
More details are on my code fund page.
In the same spirit of simplicity, donations can be made through my Ko-fi page, and I’ll keep track of the various totals in a hand-written HTML table.
So, in short, if you want more open source code to exist, now would be a good time to visit my Ko-fi page and chip in a few dollars. If you’re curious to know more, my code fund page has a list of Foreseeably Anticipated Questions that might address your curiosity. Otherwise, ask your questions in the comments or email me.
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