Any idea how much this has cost them?

Some non-profits have their HQ in the valley and pay SF salaries when they could just as well have paid a fraction of that to a very competent developer elsewhere.

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zamadatix 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The hyperlink to the maintainer's name says they are out of rural Ontario. According to the total in https://opencollective.com/servo/expenses?limit=20&searchTer... it comes out to $52,883.97 (USD) in these payments over the last 12 months.

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minraws 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

European safety nets, and government grants have helped open source projects a lot, and this is a big reason almost all of these projects end up being developed/maintained by folks from EU. Even if the sponsorships could hire 2-3x as much man power elsewhere in the world.

Another big thing is govt aligned sponsorships are not for software but for generating jobs/work within their borders.

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throwa356262 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, but SF salaries are still twice German salaries and probaby 4x Eastern Europe salaries.

	▲	minraws 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		yeah but the us folks aren't working out of SF and generally these projects have mostly flat pay structures (unsure if that exactly fits but a few comments make it seem like it checks out)

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nicoburns 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is public https://github.com/servo/project/issues/181 and https://github.com/servo/project/issues/187. TL;DR: up to $4800/month (at a rate of $150/h depending on hours actually worked)