alexellis
Become an Insider Today through Github Sponsors
What do you get? 🎁
Not only do you get bragging rights about actually supporting Open Source, but all Sponsors get access to a premium newsletter called Insiders Updates. Each week I email you a digest of all my OSS projects covering news, tutorials, events and promotions. As an Insider, you'll also be able to send me content to include for your latest blog posts.
You don't have to specifically use OpenFaaS in production to take part, although you really should if you do.
Read below for some samples of what you'll be getting from me each week.
Treasure Trove 🏝
Qualifying tiers also get complete access to all past Insiders Updates over at The Treasure Trove - log in with your GitHub account to access every update I've written at any time.
Here's a taster of recent Updates on the industry with free additional resources:
✉️ "Is Kubernetes right for us?"✉️ "Netbooting the RPi 4 (with free labs download)"✉️ "Exploring Kubernetes 1.18 (with free PDF download)"✉️ "How to make PRs and influence maintainers"
How my work benefits you 🎯
You may have already benefitted from one of my blog posts, tutorials, conference-talks or workshops, which are regularly featured on Hacker News, Twitter and in newsletters. I cover topics like: Linux, Golang, OSS, Docker, Kubernetes, Raspberry Pi, Serverless and Cloud computing.
As a CNCF Ambassador, I practice building OSS communities and helping contributors grow and thrive through relationship.
OpenFaaS is used in production by dozens of companies
I also lead and curate a number of Open Source developer tools such as openfaas, inlets, k3sup, arkade, and derek, which you can view on my profile.
What am I creating? 👋
I'm the founder of the OpenFaaS project, an open-source platform that brings a portable Serverless experience to developers anywhere. OpenFaaS has become one of the leading projects in this space and has helped form an industry. Within the project there's been over 250 contributors from all-around the world and we now have > 23k GitHub stars
I believe open-source should stay open and that we need to sustain both people and projects. If you do too, then subscribe to my newsletter via GitHub Sponsors today
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Join me on this journey 🙋♂️
I founded OpenFaaS Ltd to bring a Premium Subscription and support to OpenFaaS users. Through the company I also offer premium consulting on cloud native, technical writing and developer communities.
The more funds we can raise through GitHub Sponsors, then the more I can focus on OSS, tutorials, building community, and returning value to you.
Want to sponsor OpenFaaS directly, as a commercial user or professional developer? View the separate OpenFaaS Sponsor page
Balancing open source sacrifice and success
"Even as he struggles with funding, Alex recognizes the value of creativity and camaraderie."
Head over to GitHub's ReadME project for the latest write-up about my journey
186 sponsors are funding alexellis’s next goal
I want to find a better balance between creating and supporting OSS solutions for the community, and for companies to use in production, and consulting work for clients. Help me afford more time for Open Source, and secure the future of projects like OpenFaaS.
Featured work
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openfaas/faas
OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
Go 18,845 -
openfaas/openfaas-cloud
The Multi-user OpenFaaS Platform
Go 714 -
inlets/inlets
Cloud Native Tunnel for APIs
Go 6,913 -
alexellis/arkade
Portable DevOps Marketplace
Go 1,274 -
alexellis/k3sup
bootstrap Kubernetes with k3s over SSH < 1 min
🚀 Go 2,669 -
alexellis/derek
Reduce maintainer fatigue by automating GitHub
Go 677
53% towards 350 sponsors goal
westonsteimel and 185 others sponsor this goal
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$25 a month
Select- You're making a contribution to sustaining my OSS and community work.
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Enable me to continue to give free community-support on Slack and GitHub coaching and leading the community.
$50 a month
SelectYou're enabling me to spend more time on open source. As a thank you, upon request I'll ship you a limited edition patch for our mission together.
#TeamServerless patch
$150 a month
SelectAs a digital sommelier, you just know good work when you see it. You have admiration for my solutions, and believe in what I'm trying to build. You're here for the journey.
#TeamServerless patch and stickers in the post
$500 a month
SelectYou're a business user at a start-up, small company or enterprise and are sponsoring because of the value you get from my open source work and tutorials.
$1,000 a month
SelectYou believe in my Open Source and community work. This tier is going to help me spend more time on Open Source and giving back.
You'll get a badge on your profile, and show up as a "Sponsor" on Issues and PRs.