I think this mostly succeeds when dev don't "need" the cash. 

Unfortunately I have seen plenty of brilliant minds letting foss projects go while life and corporate work (getting paid always wins). I really thing the economy as a late has exacerbated this. The Awesome Lists  follow are mostly abandon-ware. Like really abandoned. I have taken time to make PRs in the past to prune these projects, it can take all night, then the maintainers never merge. 

It takes real discipline to accept donations, maintain convictions when you also need the money. Thomas Sowell also spends a great deal of time on human psychology of incentives.  

 Yes, that's why we put so much effort to maintaining a level of effort that doesn't burn us out or preclude sometimes focusing on work or social life.
And finding people we really just like hanging out with. Then we have an additional reason to maintain contact.

This gives us a long-term perspective. 

 @Low Information Voter
We don't have a data analyst, yet. Gaping hole in our skill set.

Just saying.
Think about it.
GN 

 lol. will think. GM. fun day. Sorry if that dude i snapped at was your fren. momentary lapse. back to civilized frog lol 

 I'm confused. Did I miss something? 

 the matthew fella with the governance frameworks and what not
 

 I have no idea who that Matthew is. 🤷‍♀️ I don't think I've ever interacted with him, before. 

 We need to fill our API with data calls. We're still building it, but at some point, there needs to be something in it. 😂 

 hahaha. lemme think about it. like i said my time is not my own for next few months. but will think. 

 Wait a minute. 😂 Are you also a potential Data Analyst? That's so cool. Yeah, get back to us, later.

No stress. We're not going anywhere. 

 I do have some dev resources in pakistan that i may be able to tap on the cheap as a donation later. just have to get my life resituated.Jamaica went all cbdc and now I have property to sort out before they tokenize it away.

<rant> fiat mafia is on the prowl. gonna have to figure out buy / sell / lease down there and where to buy some land that is as pretty.

I hate the fiat mafia sooo very much. crooks and thieves. <rant> 

 Oh, yeah, the Caribbean is all shell coin and stuff. It's so weird. 

 Let me get this little project of mine into less-embarrasing shape tonight and I'll drop you a DM and we can talk about both projects :) 

 Your brown PfP border is 🤌 

 Message sent... 

 Hey, you want to join our Slack or are you an incorrigible Lone Wolf? 

 Sure! What could possibly go wrong? 

If you need to send my anything in private, I haven't fixed my DM's yet so an email to vnpublic@proton.me would probably be the best way to reach me!