Omkar2118/datasets huggingface dataset:
Research Artifact - GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source

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.

* RQ1: *Who participates in GitHub Sponsors?*
    * RQ1.1: *What are the characteristics of sponsored developers?*
    * RQ1.2: *What are the characteristics of sponsors?*
* RQ2: *What characteristics make developers more likely to receive sponsorship?*
* RQ3: *What are developers' perceived challenges and benefits related to sponsoring?*
    * RQ3.1: *Why are develpers looking for sponsors?*
    * RQ3.2: *What is the impact of (not) getting sponsorship?*
    * RQ3.3: *Why are developers sponsoring?*

This 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.

Introducing paper: GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source