Sponsors

The collective itself does not hold funds. There is no treasury, no accounts, no legal entity to receive money. This is a practical choice: it keeps the collective independent of any single funder, and it protects the steward from being put in a position of having to choose which sponsor’s interests to favour.

What sponsorship can mean

A third party may sponsor an individual contributor to do specific work. The arrangement is between the sponsor and the individual - not between the sponsor and the collective. It is disclosed in the project’s maintainer record.

A third party may host or pay for infrastructure the collective uses (a runner, a mirror, a domain). The collective owes the host nothing.

What sponsorship cannot mean

A sponsor cannot:

• Direct what a contributor works on within the collective.
• Influence the review process or any internal decision process.
• Receive access to the member repository or non-public information.
• Have their logo on our site or any “tier” structure.
• Place advertisements anywhere in the collective’s channels.

Disclosure

Every sponsored contributor records who is paying them, for what, and since when, in the relevant project’s maintainer record. Members can see this. Once a project releases, the disclosures move into the project’s public release notes and MAINTAINERS.md.

Current sponsors

None.

Why this design

Independence requires the collective itself to be insolvent. Contributors are free to be paid for their work elsewhere; the collective as such accepts no money so that no funder ever has standing to claim influence over what gets built.