Leaderboard or Funders Dashboard for Ecosyste.ms Funds

[gusaus]

Summary

A leaderboard or funders dashboard for Ecosyste.ms Funds could provide extra incentive for funders while increasing transparency. Highlighting top contributors across Open Collective and other platforms in their respective ecosystems would help recognize and encourage ongoing support.

Why This Matters

Right now, funders play a crucial role in sustaining open-source projects, but there’s limited visibility into who’s contributing the most. Platforms like GitHub Sponsors (example), Open Collective's Top Contributors section (example), and Open Source Pledge (example) already highlight top supporters. Integrating a similar system into Ecosyste.ms Funds could:

• Provide additional recognition for major funders.
• Encourage more organizations and individuals to contribute.
• Align with existing ecosystem funding initiatives (e.g., WordPress' Five for the Future, Drupal's Certified Partner program).

Potential Features

• Cross-Platform Recognition: Aggregate funders across Open Collective, GitHub Sponsors, and other funding platforms.
• Ecosystem-Level Breakdown: Allow funders to be credited within their specific ecosystems (e.g., WordPress, Drupal).
• Visibility Controls: Option for funders to be publicly recognized or remain anonymous.

Next Steps

Would love to hear thoughts on whether this aligns with Ecosyste.ms’ goals and how we can help set up or test potential implementations.

[andrew]

@BenJam is OOO this week but I'd like to hear from him when he gets back on this from a policy point of view.

From a technical point of view it would be quite easy to implement.

[gusaus]

Align with existing ecosystem funding initiatives (e.g., WordPress' Five for the Future, Drupal's Certified Partner program).

Once we're aggregating financial contributions on their respective funds (ecosyste-ms/packages#660 ecosyste-ms/packages#980), couldn't we do something similar on pages like https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/sponsorships/ via an api?

[andrew]

Once we're aggregating financial contributions on their respective funds (ecosyste-ms/packages#660 ecosyste-ms/packages#980), couldn't we do something similar on pages like https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/sponsorships/ via an api?

Yeah we could definitely do something like that, extracting top funders from the funds app, https://sponsors.ecosyste.ms/ and https://opencollective.ecosyste.ms/ could give a good picture of who is funding which projects.

https://opencollective.ecosyste.ms/funders is a good example (just using OSC data)

[gusaus]

extracting top funders from the funds app, https://sponsors.ecosyste.ms/ and https://opencollective.ecosyste.ms/ could give a good picture of who is funding which projects.

Is the funds app aggregating just those two sources (GitHub Sponsors and Open Source Collective)? If yes, we'll definitely need to support additional hosts ecosyste-ms/opencollective#130 to get a more accurate picture of funding in Open Collective's open source ecosystem. This comment/issue is related to the latter opencollective/opencollective#6373 (comment)

[gusaus]

@andrew @BenJam Curious if you’ve had a chance to discuss implementing a leaderboard on https://funds.ecosyste.ms. It seems like this would be relatively straightforward to implement, considering you’re already showing funders on a per-project basis (for example):

• Python Fund
• JavaScript Fund

Seems like more prominent section or dedicated page that highlights top funders across ecosystems could provide additional recognition and likely encourage more organizations and individuals to contribute.