[mjs7231]

Ha, Same thing happened to me with the SAME contributor!! Benjamin Bach is an awesome dude. He helped me maintain django-dbbackup for quite some time then we found a third contributor, Anthony Monthe, who is also very interested in the project and I would say owns it now. It's been maintained by those two for quite some time now. I wish there was a way for me to buy them both a bunch of rounds of beer. :D

[rmchugh]

He's a personal friend, i can buy him a beer on your behalf ;). I think he makes it work because he works part time and uses the rest of his time on open source projects. He could easily be earning far more if he worked full time, but this is what he prioritises.

[chris_wot]

If that guy was paid in liquor by everyone who benefited from his contributions, he'd develop cirrhosis.

[andersonmvd]

Benjamin Bach seems to be awesome, however there are few people like him. Chances are your contributor won't be a Benjamin Bach. If the majority were like him, I'm sure we would have much less abandoned open source projects, but the majority isn't like him. Expect the worst and slight possibility of turning out like what the author described.

[tylersmith]

Use Bitcoin or Venmo. Sounds like they've been great stewards.

[mjs7231]

I tried Google Wallet before, but it wouldn't let me send money out of the country or something like that.

[cloudjacker]

Because only drug dealers would want to do that

You can do this with bitcoin, but only drug dealers use that

Wait...

[feld]

Stop using Venmo

http://gizmodo.com/stop-using-venmo-1759867212

[jakewins]

Haha, I'm so glad you shared that, that makes the story even better! I don't know Benjamin beyond our short interaction dealing with moving the repo around, but yeah he seems like an awesome dude.

[ashitlerferad]

Convince both of them to join you at a Django conference.