[pjmlp]

> The problem is that working on MIT/Apache licensed software doesn’t exactly help pay the bills. That’s why I’m asking for your help. I’ve spent the last 5 years having a single company sponsor my open source work. This time I’m going to try something different. Right now my goal is to get a handful of medium sized grants from larger companies to support my work on crates.io. If you work for a company that might be interested in helping sponsor me, please reach out.

This is the crux of the problem which seems left unadressed in the comments.

If it feels nice to enjoy those consulting rates, give something back.

[kbenson]

Honestly, my initial thought when reading the article was whether anyone is using Patreon for helping them focus on open source projects, or if there's a popular competitor for that. Patreon seems to have all the controls to handle this well though. I would happily give a buck or two to someone monthly, and an additional few dollars per release capped at once a month or quarter (and Patreon supports both those, but I'm not sure it supports them at the same time). Although something that worked at the project and/or individual+project level might be better in this case.