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A fundraising platform for open source and community projects.

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Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by regulatory news, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 32%.

4Hacker News·9/17/2026funding
Servo reports one year of donation-funded development
Servo maintainer Josh Bowman-Matthews reviewed a year of part-time work funded by monthly donations, focused on improving contributor experience and project stability. He reported major contributions including onboarding new maintainers, reviewing pull requests, writing documentation, and fixing flaky tests and intermittent failures. The work also supported broader Servo efforts such as JS engine integration changes, diagnosing garbage-collection-related panics, and helping another contributor secure a grant to work on the project.
6Hacker News·9/1/2026regulation
Google Play stops allowing AnkiDroid’s Open Collective donation link
AnkiDroid maintainers report that Google Play no longer permits the app to include its Open Collective donation link. The issue highlights a distribution-policy change affecting how an open-source app can receive user support through the Play Store. The discussion has drawn significant attention from the Hacker News community.