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The impact individual funding can make on open source maintenance

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For the past three months, Richard Sheppard has been a financial contributor to ContribKanban on OpenCollective. I'm extremely grateful for his decision to put his money towards my project every month. $5 a month may not seem like much, but the impact is greater than its monetary value. It's a reminder. A reminder that someone finds value in a project I maintain in my free time and has been a pet project for years. 

It's a project which could always use some feature development, but usually more maintenance. The monthly contribution doesn't exactly cover labor, but it does keep the project maintained and up to date.

I also want to mention those who have sponsored me in general on GitHub Sponsors.

 Thank you Gábor HojtsyGuillaume Baudoin, and Vijay Mani for sponsoring on GitHub Sponsors. This means a lot and helps fund the development of ContribKanban, my Drupal.org CLI, and PHPStan Drupal.

Overall, this funding covers less than an hour of development time. But, it does cover coffee for a month, and that is fine by me 🥳.

I'm available for one-on-one consulting calls – click here to book a meeting with me 🗓️