One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
Posted 2026-09-15 Last September, the Servo project announced that long-time maintainer Josh Bowman-Matthews (@jdm) would work part-time on improving the Servo contributor experience, entirely funded by the monthly donations on OpenCollective and GitHub. In his own words, here is a look back over the past year! First of all, I am enormously grateful to everyone who financially supports Servo, as those donations have enabled me to devote significant time to a project that I care a lot about.
- ▪Posted 2026-09-15 Last September, the Servo project announced that long-time maintainer Josh Bowman-Matthews (@jdm) would work part-time on improving the Servo contributor experience, entirely funded by the monthly donations on OpenCollecti
- ▪In his own words, here is a look back over the past year!
- ▪First of all, I am enormously grateful to everyone who financially supports Servo, as those donations have enabled me to devote significant time to a project that I care a lot about.
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Get Involved Contributing Servo Book WPT pass rates Code of Conduct Download Blog Demos About About Servo Made with Servo Governance Sponsorship const hamburger = document.getElementById('hamburgerMenu'); const menu = document.getElementById('navbar-menu'); const toggleMenu = () => { const isExpanded = hamburger.getAttribute('aria-expanded') === 'true'; hamburger.setAttribute('aria-expanded', !isExpanded); menu.classList.toggle('is-active', isExpanded); }; // Toggle on click hamburger.addEventListener('click', toggleMenu); Your Donations at Work: One Year of Sponsored Servo Development Looking back on Servo's first donation-funded role.
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