How burned out do you feel on your current OSS Project(s)?

How burned out do you feel toward OSS in General?

[CALCULATED: Difference]

What is the likelihood that your project(s) will begin to (or already has begun to) stagnate due to a lack of time, energy, or resources?

What is the likelihood that your project(s) will begin to (or already has begun to) stagnate due to a lack of capability to solve your project's challenges?

What format(s) would you welcome for this sort of support?

...how much would support in this way matter to you / your project?

How supported do you currently feel in this regard?

What format(s) would you welcome for this sort of support?

...how much would support in this way matter to you / your project?

How supported do you currently feel in this regard?

What format(s) would you welcome for this sort of support?

...how much would support in this way matter to you / your project?

How supported do you currently feel in this regard?

What format(s) would you welcome for this sort of support?

...how much would support in this way matter to you / your project?

How supported do you currently feel in this regard?

What format(s) would you welcome for this sort of support?

...how much would support in this way matter to you / your project?

How supported do you currently feel in this regard?

What format(s) would you welcome for this sort of support?

...how much would support in this way matter to you / your project?

How supported do you currently feel in this regard?

What format(s) would you welcome for this sort of support?

...how much would support in this way matter to you / your project?

How supported do you currently feel in this regard?

What format(s) would you welcome for this sort of support?

...how much would support in this way matter to you / your project?

How supported do you currently feel in this regard?

What format(s) would you welcome for this sort of support?

...how much would support in this way matter to you / your project?

How supported do you currently feel in this regard?

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project, I'm working on a GitHub sponsor accessible private NuGet feed.

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed

General DevOps support, Cloud / infrastructure support, CI/CD Support, Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits

Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Keeping issues current / cleaned up

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes

Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact

Recurring donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project, It'd be great if NuGet had built-in marketplace, or if there was support for promoting/monetising or coaching how to monetise OSS.

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, References from the users, espeially companies.

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests, documenttion

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Keeping issues current / cleaned up

Cloud / infrastructure support

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Cloud Provider Credits, Implementation of Tooling besides the delivery tooling/scripting spoken of in the "Support: Delivery" section

dogfooding and using product in the paid job, paid features from companies, or long term sponsorship

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others

Tweets of praise / thanks, Anything public, private is pointless.

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current

CI/CD Support, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.)

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact

Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up, Roadmap / prioritization support

General DevOps support, Cloud / infrastructure support, CI/CD Support, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind, Implementation of Tooling besides the delivery tooling/scripting spoken of in the "Support: Delivery" section

Support contracts we offer today allow me to employ people to work on the project at a pace where no one burns out

Purchasing a support agreement

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower

Creating new documentation, Web site / communication support, Roadmap / prioritization support

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Implementation of Tooling besides the delivery tooling/scripting spoken of in the "Support: Delivery" section

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository, We lack bloggers and docs so people contributing by those would go a long way to reducing support pressures

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Feature Coding, Bugfixes

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports)

All good with this side of things

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.)

Issue triage, Process improvement

CI/CD Support, Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

SaaS Credits of some kind

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Process improvement

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, A chance to step away from the project entirely, temporarily, without losing ownership/stewardship of the project

Recurring donations, Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing as a way of unlocking input to your project roadmap, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Recommending your project to others, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, A chance to step away from the project entirely, temporarily, without losing ownership/stewardship of the project

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Recommending your project to others, GitHub stars or similar

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests, Anything people feel like doing

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support

General DevOps support, CI/CD Support, Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Recurring donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up, Roadmap / prioritization support

Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.)

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Issue triage, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up

CI/CD Support, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact, Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project, A chance to step away from the project entirely, temporarily, without losing ownership/stewardship of the project

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Bugfixes, Automated Tests, Feature requests, feature brainstorming

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up, Roadmap / prioritization support

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Taking action against bad actors within your projects, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind, Implementation of Tooling besides the delivery tooling/scripting spoken of in the "Support: Delivery" section, I don't personally need any of this support, but other projects would benefit so I checked all

Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project

Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, creating samples, tutorials and videos

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits

Recurring donations, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team, Thanks and appreciation, not just issues aand complaints

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Keeping issues current / cleaned up

General DevOps support, Cloud / infrastructure support, CI/CD Support, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.)

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact

Purchasing a support agreement

Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar, It’s kind of covered by the first ticked box but hearing from others on how they are using the project is great

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests, Documentation, better quality issue reporting

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Keeping issues current / cleaned up, Roadmap / prioritization support

General DevOps support, CI/CD Support, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Taking action against bad actors within your projects, Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact, Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up

General DevOps support, Cloud / infrastructure support, CI/CD Support, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Taking action against bad actors within your projects, Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind, Implementation of Tooling besides the delivery tooling/scripting spoken of in the "Support: Delivery" section

Purchasing a support agreement, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Recommending your project to others, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports)

Cloud / infrastructure support, CI/CD Support, Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Keeping issues current / cleaned up

General DevOps support, Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing

Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project

Recurring donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing as a way of unlocking input to your project roadmap

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up, Roadmap / prioritization support

General DevOps support, CI/CD Support

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact, Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project

Recurring donations, Greater visibility for project, particularly in US market

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Bugfixes

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed

Cloud / infrastructure support, CI/CD Support

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Bugfixes

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact, A chance to step away from the project entirely, temporarily, without losing ownership/stewardship of the project

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Process improvement

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact, Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project

None - they are simply my hobbies, and I owe no-one anything. If I were to seek financial support, I would convert them to commercial products (still open source).

Again, I just don't care. They are my hobbies, nothing more.

same as most of the previous answers

Most of what I need is already free (VS Community, VS Code, etc.) Where appropriate, I make financial contributions, as a cost of my hobbies.

Since they are my hobbies, none of this really applies.

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing as a way of unlocking input to your project roadmap, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Taking action against bad actors within your projects, Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects

Purchasing a support agreement, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Keeping issues current / cleaned up

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Taking action against bad actors within your projects, Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind, Implementation of Tooling besides the delivery tooling/scripting spoken of in the "Support: Delivery" section

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, A chance to step away from the project entirely, temporarily, without losing ownership/stewardship of the project

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Feature Coding, Bugfixes

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Roadmap / prioritization support

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact

More vocal/public Recognition/Attribution of usage

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, Blog post/Mention in product press releases

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports)

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Recruiting others to become involved in the project

Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project

Purchasing a support agreement

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition

One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact

Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Purchasing as a way of unlocking input to your project roadmap

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Recommending your project to others, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Issue triage

CI/CD Support, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.)

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact, Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project, A chance to step away from the project entirely, temporarily, without losing ownership/stewardship of the project

Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Process improvement, Roadmap / prioritization support

General DevOps support, Cloud / infrastructure support, Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work, anything!

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up, Roadmap / prioritization support

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement

Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.)

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Issue triage

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing

Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact, A chance to step away from the project entirely, temporarily, without losing ownership/stewardship of the project

Small monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Feature Coding, Bugfixes

Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support

Cloud / infrastructure support

Recruiting others to become involved in the project

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing as a way of unlocking input to your project roadmap

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube

Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Feature Coding, Automated Tests

Purchasing a support agreement, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project, Other companies contributing to the project

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Tweets of praise / thanks, One-on-one messages (e-mails, DMs) listing the impact of your work

Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up, Roadmap / prioritization support

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a support agreement, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Awards or other symbolic recognition, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Messages where your project operates (GitHub, Discord, Slack, Gitter, etc.) to thank the team, Tweets of praise / thanks

Additional core maintainers (assuming ramp-up, etc.), Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Issue triage, Keeping issues current / cleaned up

Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Participating in your project's community (Discord, Slack, GitHub discussions)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact, Quiet periods where others keep things humming so you can think more deeply about the project

One-time donations, Recurring donations, Small monetary donations, Larger monetary donations, Purchasing a service that is tangential to the project, e.g. a SaaS service built upon the project, Free tooling / products / subscriptions for the project team

Supportive tweets from those in the community with a lot of followers, Blog posts exploring your project's features or what they've accomplished with it, Awards or other symbolic recognition, Podcast mentions, Mentions and Showcases on Video, e.g. Twitch or YouTube, Recommending your project to others, Meetup / Conference talks on your project, Pictures of "swag" (stickers, mugs, etc.) In the world, GitHub stars or similar, Logos of organizations using your project, for display on your site / repository

Tweets of praise / thanks

Support on basic / "help wanted" tasks, Quick outreach to folks who could jump in to provide effort/brainpower, Feature Coding, Bugfixes, Automated Tests

Creating new documentation, Keeping documentation current, Web site / communication support, Automating the production of documentation, Clearly written bug reports (or clarifying other reports), Enhancement suggestions that are supportive and detailed, Issue triage, Process improvement, Keeping issues current / cleaned up, Roadmap / prioritization support

General DevOps support, Cloud / infrastructure support, CI/CD Support, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.), Release management help (versioning, publishing releases, etc.)

Moderation of conversations (issues, discussions, etc.), Taking action against bad actors within your projects, Recruiting others to become involved in the project, Meta-automation (bots, labeling, etc.)

Subscriptions to paid tooling that doesn't offer free OSS licensing, Cloud Provider Credits, SaaS Credits of some kind, Implementation of Tooling besides the delivery tooling/scripting spoken of in the "Support: Delivery" section

A (paid) long-term sabbatical from job / other paid work to focus on OSS projects, Others supporting you during unpaid day(s) to focus efforts and increase impact