Material-UI is now on OpenCollective
We are happy to announce that we have started to accept financial contributions to the Material-UI project via OpenCollective.
Why accept financial contributions?
Since the first release of Material-UI 3 years ago by @callemall, we have received an astonishing amount of feedback and support from the React community. But the ecosystem has evolved a lot since then. The ownership of the project moved from @callemall to the community: @mui-org.
We have also learned a lot. We have started an ambitious task: rebuilding Material-UI from the ground up, taking advantage of this knowledge to address long-standing issues. This is how Material-UI v1 was born.
Maintaining and migrating the components to v1 takes us a considerable amount of time. One of the common requests was a way to give back and support the continued development of this project. In light of that, we’ve tried to create some incentives for people who wish to contribute.
While your financial contributions will help sustain the project, sponsors will be promoted. For instance, it can help your exposure in the React community and make it easier to attract React developers.
Why OpenCollective?
- Today, as the Material-UI community grows, there are more and more code contributions from the community. OpenCollective’s transparent expense model could help us scale and share the financial contributions beyond a single developer.
- OpenCollective is also a platform built with open source projects in mind. It has done a great job engaging with the open source community, so sponsors also benefit from better community exposure. It’s very encouraging to see projects like webpack thriving on OpenCollective.
- It also provides nice technical features such as GitHub integration, automating backers listing, and invoice generation.
Thank you Facebook!
We are so happy to announce our first sponsor: Facebook. Many thanks!
Thank you Call-Em-All!
Call-Em-All is the place of birth of Material-UI. Thank you for supporting the new organization!
Going forward
Funds donated to OpenCollective will be managed with transparent expenses — this allows us to use these funds to support major undertakings by core contributors.
If you run a business that is using Material-UI in a revenue-generating product, are a freelancer and Material-UI helped you in your work, or a person just using it in a fun project, your contributions will help keep Material-UI sustainable and make it better in the future.
Support Material-UI on OpenCollective.
Alternatively, you can support Olivier on Patreon.
