The 2nd Rust developer shown on the list exploring GitHub Sponsors for me is

BurntSushi (Andrew Gallant) · GitHub

I love to code. BurntSushi has 175 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

github.com

My projects rely on 12 of his repositories.

his GitHub profile does not have any extra information, but his GitHub Sponsors profile tell a lot. He is part of several teams building Rust itself and he has a number of high-profile crates listed on that page.

Goal

He set a goal to have 100 sponsors. Right now he has 61 sponsors that GitHub represents as 59%. (By now I got used to that the calculation of GitHub is a bit strange.)

As I understand Andrew is employed and so the sponsorships are primarily as a thank-you for him and for encouraging him to work more on these things. As he writes:

Note that there are no direct rewards provided as I am doing this on the side.

Tiers

There are tiers at $5, $20, $50, $100, $500, but the reward is the same for all of them:

What sponsors get

Thank you!

Conclusion

It is very impressive that someone is capable to create so many useful libraries and contribute so much value to the community totally as a side-project.

Say thank you to Andrew here.

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