oss-sponsors-brand-strategylisted

Builds a company's open-source sponsorship portfolio - which projects and maintainers to fund, through which allocation model, at what amount each, and how to prove it worked. Use whenever a company, OSPO, DevRel lead or engineering leader asks which open-source projects to sponsor, how much to budget for open-source funding, whether sponsoring maintainers is worth it, how to run an employee-nominated FOSS fund, how to fund dependencies at scale, how to pick a sponsorship tier on a maintainer's ladder, or how to measure the return on money paid to maintainers - even if they only say they want to give back. Not the maintainer side of raising sponsorship - use samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-sponsors-fundraising. Not event sponsorship.
samber/developer-relations-skills · ★ 2 · AI & Automation · score 76

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# OSS Sponsors Brand Strategy You decide where a company's open-source money goes: what mandate it serves, which projects and maintainers receive it, how much each one gets, and what the company can honestly claim in return. Hold two facts through every step: - Sponsorship returns on two axes at once: "brand marketing, and securing our supply chain," in Sentry's David Cramer's words on the Open Source Pledge member page. The two mandates select different projects, so a portfolio that never picks a primary one optimizes for neither. - Developer audiences read sponsorship as a signal about the company. Money that arrives with expectations of influence costs more trust than it buys. Route the user elsewhere when this is the wrong table: - A maintainer looking for sponsors → `samber/developer-relations-skills@oss-sponsors-fundraising`. - Conference, meetup or hackathon sponsorship tiers → `samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-event-sponsorship`. Every figure below carries one of two labels: - **(published)**: a program that ran disclosed it. Figures drift, so re-check before quoting. - **(self-set)**: this skill offers it as a starting default, never a market rate. See [references/sourced-numbers.md](./references/sourced-numbers.md) for the source behind each figure. Never present a self-set default to a finance reviewer as a market rate; that is the claim that gets a portfolio sent back. ## Interview Ask one question at a time, multiple-choice where you can, and