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Become a sponsor to Austin Seipp

Howdy. My name is Austin, and I'm a FOSS developer in the southern United States. I've worn a lot of hats, and in previous lives I did things like maintain the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, write software exploits, and work on filesystems.

These days, I spend time working on making websites load faster, and working on the NixOS Linux distribution, where you'll see a lot of my recent FOSS contributions. Occasionally, I publish other useful utilities or middleware, like Eris, minibsdiff, or libfault.

You can use this chance to give me some money.

What this gets you

Every sponsor gets:

  • A feeling of solidarity and support! That rocks.
  • Email access. Got a simple Haskell or Nix question? Just want to say thanks? I'll add you to a priority email list of mine (but can't guarantee super timely responses).
  • Irregular email updates, maybe. I might send occasional fun updates about (new) projects or things I'm thinking about.

But remember that, no matter what: you're incredibly good looking and also my friend.

What it does not get you

These tiers explicitly do not provide any guaranteed form of support, labor, timely response, and do not constituent any notion of (but not limited to) "employment" UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. Specifics of actual directed work will be negotiated on a donor-by-donor basis. Again, unless otherwise noted, donating money in the lower tiers WILL NOT influence or change any positions on matters relating to Free Software development. No preferential treatment, expedited reviews, nada, zilch, nothing.

@thoughtpolice

Gives me warm fuzzies, and I'll sponsor others in turn.

Current sponsors 1

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Past sponsors 1

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Featured work

  1. NixOS/nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  2. well-typed/cborg

    Binary serialisation in the CBOR format

    Haskell 185
  3. thoughtpolice/eris

    Serve your /nix/store directory over the internet ✨

    Perl 79
  4. thoughtpolice/minibsdiff

    A miniature, portable version of bsdiff.

  5. ghc/ghc

    Mirror of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Please submit issues and patches to GHC's Gitlab instance (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc). First time contributors are encouraged to get started with th…

    Haskell 2,974
  6. thoughtpolice/cryptol-mode

    A Cryptol major mode for Emacs.

    Emacs Lisp 15

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You'll receive any rewards listed in the $5 monthly tier. Additionally, a Public Sponsor achievement will be added to your profile.

$1 a month

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💥 Friendly assist - You just want to pitch in. Thanks!

$5 a month

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☕️ Coffee addict - You will buy my morning coffee every once in a while, which will please me greatly. Occasionally, I will buy a bag of coffee and use that for a few days. I always tip well when I buy coffee because everyone at the local place is really nice, that's on me. I'm legally required by the courts to spend all this money on coffee so if too many people subscribe then I might die.

$2,000 a month

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❄️ Long term Nix work & support - Using Nix in your project, but need something? In Nix? NixOS? The whole ecosystem? I can do it... for a load of money.

  • You MUST contact me first so that I can negotiate specifics with you. Unless you want to just throw money away. Otherwise I can't guarantee availability or timeliness.
  • This is for serious, large-scale work in the free, open source Nix ecosystem ONLY. While it is Nix-specific, the scope is effectively "whatever you want"
  • Funds from this tier will be redistributed to The NixOS Foundation (60%/40%)

$4,000 a month

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🔫 Hired gun - I'll work on any FOSS project you need help for, to whatever extent you (reasonably) desire. Previous restrictions (right to refuse, scope, timing, support) apply. This isn't a commitment to a 40 hour work week, but to an agreed upon long-term dev schedule.

Note: If you need Nix work done, use the previous tier; this tier is priced for arbitrary projects since it splits my attention further. Nix-related work is closely related to my prior, pre-existing work, and it's therefore better for everyone if it all goes in the same basket.

Funds from this tier will be redistributed to charitable foundations of my choosing (60%/40%)