the.com/contributor
Someone who did the work and gets a line of text instead of a cut of the profit.
means A person who adds something — money, effort, or material — to a shared project or outcome.
from Traces back to Latin contribuere, 'to bring together, add, or pay in' — from com- ('together') and tribuere ('to grant, allot, pay'), the same tribuere that gives us 'tribute.' The sense was originally financial, people pooling money toward a common fund, before it loosened to cover anyone pooling time, ideas, or labor toward a common cause.
- open source
- half the internet runs on their unpaid weekends
- credits section
- the only place their name outlives the project
- github stats
- green squares, zero dollars
- job title
- technically not an employee, definitely doing employee work