Corrected title: "Sentry: We Just Gave ~$155k to Open Source Maintainers" The We...

bellyfullofbac · on Oct 21, 2021

Actually the sum is only 0.00007% away from $155k.

(Before parent poster edited their post they had "$~154k").

joecool1029 · on Oct 21, 2021

Muphry's law strikes again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

ehsankia · on Oct 21, 2021

And for those curious, the TL;DR of the 11c:

> As to the 11¢ offset, we have currency conversion to thank.

dane-pgp · on Oct 21, 2021

Couldn't they have found a nearby open source maintainer and handed them 11 cents? Maybe they don't run a petty cash system.

asddubs · on Oct 22, 2021

typical, you donate 154.99 grand, and people want an additional 11 cents. where does it stop?

dane-pgp · on Oct 23, 2021

> where does it stop?

Perhaps after giving each open source project 11 cents? That made me curious about the numbers, and I found a paper which says "Daffara estimates that there were 18,000 active open source projects in September 2007 worldwide"[0] which would mean donating about $2000.

Another analysis from 2013 calculated that "87% of projects have 5 or fewer committers per year"[1] so if we unreasonably assume that each developer only works on one project, that might mean 5 times as many developers as projects, so $10,000 to donate 11 cents to every open source developer.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.4978.pdf

[1] https://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/04/22/the-size-of-open-so...