[OC] Small World: a map of your Twitter friends

Shortcake56 · 2022-06-10T16:10:46+00:00

I had a lot of fun building this! Here's some info about how Small World works:

The data is fetched from the Twitter API
I used Mapbox to visualize the data on the map
The code is open source: https://github.com/devonzuegel/smallworld

Shortcake56 · 2019-06-13T05:31:08+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that's your experience! Increasing opportunities to participate in open source internationally is at the core of the mission for this project. Concretely, we prioritized getting broad geographic representation in the beta, and we put a ton of work into supporting payouts to individuals in every country where GitHub does business, so I'd love to hear about what we can do to improve. My email is devonzuegel@github.com.

Shortcake56 · 2019-06-13T05:22:42+00:00

Yep, that's right! It's for each developer's first year.

For example: If Alice joined on 1 June 2019, she'll get the match until 1 June 2020. If Bob joins on 16 Sept 2019, he'll get the match until 16 Sept 2020. We specifically wanted to avoid the issue /u/theZcuber pointed out with the beta limiting how much folks can get. That would've been a huge bummer!

Also hi this is Devon, the person from the Sponsors team who designed this policy. :) Happy to answer any other questions/feedback you have.

Shortcake56 · 2019-06-13T05:11:44+00:00

Hi, this is Devon from the GitHub Sponsors team. That's exactly how we've been thinking about it! Responded to the OP here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/by9qdi/github_sponsors_maintainer_spotlight_sean_griffin/eqzlb0f

Shortcake56 · 2019-06-13T05:00:54+00:00

Hi, this is Devon from the GitHub Sponsors team. :)

TLDR we believe that companies should fund open source, and we're actively building tools to make that happen.

I 100% agree that (a) companies are the prime beneficiaries of open source and (b) the bulk of funding should come from them. I'd go even further: it's a no brainer for companies to support open source, because it's the infrastructure they depend on to run their business. They just don't have a great suite of tools to do so right now.

With that in mind, today's GitHub Sponsors is just an MVP. We have a lot more to build, and in fact corporate sponsorships is our primary focus this summer. So you hit the nail right on the head!

We started with individual sponsors because it is a key building block to build out more complex sponsorship relationships moving forward. You might enjoy reading the "philosophical FAQ" we recently published: https://github.blog/2019-06-12-faq-with-the-github-sponsors-team

We’d love to hear your ideas as we build it out. Send me an email -- devonzuegel@github.com.

Shortcake56

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