unseen-oss VS maintainermonth

"Why is it important?" you might ask. According to ZD Net 78% of companies around the world are running open source software. Elsewhere, you might hear stats like how the majority of the world's software is built on open source. GitHub pointed out in one of their latest blog posts that people "use more open source software than [they] think". With all these statistics floating around the internet, there's definitely cause to not take open source for granted.

You use more open source software than you think\ (3 comments)

I got a bit of a shock when I visited https://github.com/readme/unseen-oss and it wasn't a GitHub repository, it was a custom designed page!

Not a lot of URLs on GitHub sit outside of their regular /owner/repo pattern - the only other section I can think of that does that is https://github.com/about - things like documentation tend to live on separate subdomains, like https://docs.github.com/

The reason why there is a wide range in the monthly amount is because the timing of the payment for those who support the project is divided into daily payments, so there seems to be a blurring of the amount in the timing of the transfer. In addition, the months with One-Time support are added to the Monthly support. The reason for the large increase only in July 2022 is that GitHub Maintainer Month received about $500 in One-Time support from GitHub, Inc.

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