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Survey participant demographics

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GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source
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  • Feb 2022
GitHub Sponsors, launched in 2019, enables donations to individual open source software (OSS) developers. Financial support for OSS maintainers and developers is a major issue in terms of sustaining OSS projects, and the ability to donate to individuals is expected to support the sustainability of developers, projects, and community. In this work,...
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... August 2021, we sent invitations to 2,000 randomly selected sponsored developers, 2,000 non-sponsored developers, and 2,000 sponsors to participate in the survey, and received a total of 372 responses: 177 from sponsored developers, 129 from non-sponsored developers, and 66 from sponsors. Table 1 presents an overview of the demographics of our survey participants. Responses were obtained from GitHub users with diverse years of experience. ...