GitHub launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors

GitHubtoday launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open source developers. Developers will be able to opt into having a “Sponsor me” button on their GitHub repositories and open source projects will also be able to highlight their funding models, no matter whether that’s individual contributions to developers or using Patreon, Tidelift, Ko-fi or Open Collective.
The mission here, GitHub says, is to “expand the opportunities to participate in