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by andrzejkrzywda 3521 days ago
It's not a classical open-source project, but what we did with our React.JS koans (and other our OSS repos) was to advertise our React.js book in the README and give a discount code. Essentially, it's an ad for our own book.

https://github.com/arkency/reactjs_koans

Thanks to this solution we've had more money to work on this and other OSS projects.
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Gammarays 3521 days ago
Looks like a great resource with a number of collaborators. What was the process of getting all the collaborators to agree to advertise the book?

Have you ever been approached to sponsor another product/company? Under what terms would you accept?

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andrzejkrzywda 3521 days ago
The book ad was there almost from the beginning, so we've assumed that the contributors are aware of the way this repo is funded.

As for sponsoring other products/companies - we'd need to see if it's aligned with our goals and with our target group. I don't remember anyone approaching us so far.

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