Contributing to Open Source can be great for your career and lets you give back to the community. Even though most Open Source projects are of the unpaid kind, there’s nothing preventing you from earning some money. How to do it? There’s more than one way and we’ll learn which may work for you.

1. How to make money on Open Source?

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3. Why is contributing to Open Source
worth your time?
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4. Increase your skills
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5. Increase your skills
Improve your visibility
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6. Increase your skills
Improve your visibility
Find a new job (or new clients)
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7. Increase your skills
Improve your visibility
Find a new job (or new clients)
Find new employees
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8. Increase your skills
Improve your visibility
Find a new job (or new clients)
Find new employees
Do something for others (gaining their gratitude)
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9. Get nice statistics
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10. How to make money on Open Source?
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11. Donations, patronage, crowdfunding
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12. Continuous
Paypal Button
https://doomhammer.github.io/songcorder/#tips-welcome
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13. Continuous
Flattr
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14. Continuous
Gittip/Gratipay/Liberapay
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15. Continuous
Patreon
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16. Continuous
GitHub Sponsors
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17. One-time
Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-mark-ii-the-open-
voice-assistant
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18. One-time
IndieGoGo
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/geary-a-beautiful-modern-open-source-
email-client
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19. @DoomHammerNG
One-time
Self-managed
https://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html

20. Paid internship
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs
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21. Grants
https://foundation.travis-ci.org/grants
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/grants/
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22. Companies developing Open Source
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23. Companies developing Open Source
See the sponsors list
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24. Bounty hunts
https://www.bountysource.com/
https://issuehunt.io
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25. Gitcoin
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26. Lemonade stand
https://github.com/naya a/lemonade-stand
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27. Problems related to Open Source
funding
Awareness
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28. Problems related to Open Source
funding
Awareness
Trust
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29. Problems related to Open Source
funding
Awareness
Trust
Lack of standards / Too much choice
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30. Why is it important?
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31. What can we do about it?
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32. Thank you!
https://github.com/DoomHammer | @doomhammerng
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