Code Sponsor + Gitcoin = OSS Sustainability

Eric Berry
Gitcoin
Published in
2 min readJan 16, 2018

Hi everyone! My name is Eric Berry. I’m a long-time software developer and OSS sustainability advocate. You might know me as the founder of Code Sponsor, a platform built to provide funding for open source through one line of code.

Thanks to a tweet last year by Tomás Aparicio, I had the great pleasure to discover Gitcoin. During the exact moment I saw his tweet, I was contemplating how to manage payments to over 8 different countries. Cryptocurrency seemed an obvious choice. That day marked the beginning of a four month courtship between Kevin Owocki, CEO of Gitcoin, and myself.

To read the full story visit: https://gitcoin.co/blog/code-sponsor-gitcoin-oss-sustainability/

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