urllib3 in 2024

Overall, 2024 was a slower year for urllib3 in terms of development and funding compared to previous years. The year's highlights were increased financial support from multiple sources, developments for HTTP/2 and WASM support, and successful sponsored work from LaunchDarkly.

urllib3 received $30,213 US dollars in financial support in 2024 from all sources and distributed $21,400 to contributors and maintainers. This is a substantial increase in financial support compared to 2023, when the project only received $17,830, 87% of which came from a single source (Tidelift).

Microsoft was the second largest funding source, generously donating $5,000 through the Microsoft FOSS Fund. Thanks to Microsoft for supporting their open source dependencies.

We distributed $1,600 to community contributors through our bounty program, slightly less than last year, despite our open bounties for HTTP/2 support. At the time of publication there are $3,300 worth of bounties in our issue tracker, so if you’d like to be paid to contribute to open source please take a look!

Our Open Collective started the year with around $12,000 USD and ended the year with nearly $20,000. This reflects both our fundraising for HTTP/2 and our lack of ability to pay contributors and maintainers to work on HTTP/2 issues.

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