{"url":"/dataset/research-artifact-github-sponsors-exploring-a","name":"Research Artifact - GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"This is a research artifact for the ICSE'22 paper \"**GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source**\". The following three research questions were constructed to guide the study.\r\n\r\n* RQ1: *Who participates in GitHub Sponsors?*\r\n    * RQ1.1: *What are the characteristics of sponsored developers?*\r\n    * RQ1.2: *What are the characteristics of sponsors?*\r\n* RQ2: *What characteristics make developers more likely to receive sponsorship?*\r\n* RQ3: *What are developers' perceived challenges and benefits related to sponsoring?*\r\n    * RQ3.1: *Why are develpers looking for sponsors?*\r\n    * RQ3.2: *What is the impact of (not) getting sponsorship?*\r\n    * RQ3.3: *Why are developers sponsoring?*\r\n\r\nThis artifact is a repository including lists of studied repositories on GitHub, a dataset for the network diagram for answering RQ1, the features for sponsored and non-sponsored developers for RQ2, the features for sponsors for RQ2, and survey material and coding of responses for RQ3.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/NAIST-SE/GHSponsors","introduced_date":"2022-02-09","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/github-sponsors-exploring-a-new-way-to","title":"GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source","first_author":null,"url":null},"license":{"name":"CC0 1.0 Universal","url":"https://github.com/NAIST-SE/GHSponsors/blob/main/LICENSE.md"},"modalities":[],"tasks":[],"languages":[{"name":"English","url":"/datasets/language/english"}],"variants":["Research Artifact - GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}