[mudkipdev]

Great idea, I also think it'd be interesting to systematically donate to the projects with the lowest bus factor (or as that one XKCD describes it: "the project that a random person in Nebraska has been maintaining since 2005")

[kvinogradov]

Yes, that would be a very useful risk metric! Assuming access only to public APIs (GitHub, package managers, etc.), how would you define the bus factor in terms of data? I am thinking about # unique contributors over the last X years.

It's funny that the experiment uncovered exactly such a case: a person from Nebraska got my donation as the first income from his open source contributions over the last 18 years and shared this on Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7269812...