Who's an open source maintainer/project that needs sponsorship or help?

I am not an Open Source developer that needs funding.

I just created a business, an LLC, to develop my software. I did this on purpose so that companies would have an entity to send money to if they use my software.

I've heard that developers and managers at companies do want to give money to FOSS projects, but sending money to an individual is fraught with peril. Sending money to another company that can generate invoices and give some services? Much easier to justify.

If possible, I suggest developers of popular FOSS projects do this. If you include my search for a good bank, I've spent probably 20 hours doing this. (I used lawyers as well, but that's not required.) Spending 20 hours to have some way to receive money may be worth it.

Basically all of open source needs contributors and sponsorship. If you work for a company, get them to allocate some funding and employee hours towards the projects they use, including deep dependencies. The FOSSjobs resources wiki has a Patronage section that could be useful for the funding part.

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

Some projects from Ukrainian maintainers come to mind:

https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink by @vadimdemedes (React renderer for CLI)

https://github.com/platformio by @ivankravets (embedded development platform)

FBReader (aka FbreaderJ) is a very popular ebook Reader on android 10M+ downloads (and many other platforms). Unfortunately a few years back the owners of https://github.com/geometer/FBReaderJ (1.8k stars) decided to stop open source contributions and go only commercial. Their last open source version has been put here: https://github.com/geometer/FBReader-Android-2 (gradle based) As android SDK evolved, the app is no longer compatible with newer versions. The only fork that I know it made some updates for slightly newer sdk few years back: https://github.com/gelojavonitalla/FBReader-Android-2 and https://github.com/aplicatii-romanesti/FBReader-Android-2 Of course, besides updating sdk there is also a list of bugs which are long due (I can provide a list).

As the project was open till now, there were other open apps based on it, and currently unable to maintain both the main project and their own ones.

Magit, the wonderful git porcelain for emacs.

Details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/11cezoq/magit_mainta...

Direct donation link: https://magit.vc/donate/

I maintain several open source projects, most notably:

Sparkmagic (https://github.com/jupyter-incubator/sparkmagic)

Sparkmagic provides jupyter magics and kernels for working with remote Spark clusters. It's used by thousands of developers and companies like Pinterest, Amazon, more!

I've been maintaining for the past few years and would love help!

KSOPS (https://github.com/viaduct-ai/kustomize-sops)

KSOPS, or kustomize-SOPS, is a kustomize KRM exec plugin for SOPS encrypted resources. KSOPS can be used to decrypt any Kubernetes resource, but is most commonly used to decrypt encrypted Kubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps. As a kustomize plugin, KSOPS allows you to manage, build, and apply encrypted manifests the same way you manage the rest of your Kubernetes manifests.

KSOPS is the most popular kustomize plugin and I'd love help maintaining and improving it from out GitOps fanatics.

Nexus: https://github.com/jfilby/nexus

This is a web framework + ORM for Nim. It's in desperate need of more work to support DBs other than PostgreSQL and make the ORM more flexible. The web side also needs more work.

Related, I wish more companies do things like Google's Summer of Code to promote open source

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code

The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA.) https://fpa.freecad.org/

The developer of Protomaps (https://protomaps.com/blog) is doing really cutting-edge work in the geospatial space and is taking sponsorships: https://github.com/protomaps

I maintain a web port [1] of super star trek. I need help with UX, graphics, game play and fresh ideas.

[1] https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/superstartrek

I am interested deep learning for audio, develop open source projects with some like-minded friends:

https://github.com/libAudioFlux/audioFlux

I will be happy to get coding parters and/or funding:

https://tablam.org

GitHub.com/onchere