Become a sponsor to Pete Johanson
Hello, I'm Pete!
I've been a software engineer for 20+ years. Most of my professional career has been in healthcare IT, but in college I got my start with open source by becoming a Gentoo Linux maintainer.
Fast forward, and two years ago I found a new scratch to itch; after getting into custom mechanical keyboards, I found the options for open source wireless keyboards lacking. Two years, and countless hours later, ZMK has become a popular firmware, with an energetic and positive community having grown around it.
With the growth of ZMK, there has been an massive expansion of custom wireless mechanical keyboards. The nice!nano has sold thousand of units, most of which run ZMK. The Corne-ish Zen has sold hundreds of high end wireless splits, all running ZMK. It's incredibly gratifying to have helped empowered these kinds of products to grow and exist.
My goal with GH sponsorship is to support me and my family financially while also allowing me to focus my time on ZMK in a more sustainable way than I've done in the past; burning the midnight oil and sacrificing sleep/health to find time to work on it.
For more details on my plans for ZMK, and thinking about how sponsorship and OSS work, check out my blog post: https://petejohanson.dev/blog/new-journey-2022/
Thank you to everyone who chooses to sponsor my work! ❤️
I would like to be able to support my family (me, my wife, and our two amazing daughters) while continuing to develop ZMK, without having to also hold another fulltime job, and burn myself out working nights, weekends, etc on ZMK. Hitting this goal would help pay for all the normal expenses of having a family, shelter, food, clothing, etc.
Featured work
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zmkfirmware/zmk
ZMK Firmware Repository
C 2,825
$5 a month
SelectNFC Sponsorship
An incredibly important short range wireless protocol! Don't underestimate the usefulness of NFC!
Benefits
In addition to supporting my OSS work, sponsors at this tier receive the following bonus benefits:
- Your name (and optional URl) added to my personal website and my GitHub profile as an NFC Sponsor.
$10 a month
SelectBLE Sponsorship
An incredibly important power efficient wireless protocol that, most importantly, supports the Human Interface Device (HID) standard to allow ZMK to do what it does best!
Benefits
In addition to supporting my OSS work, sponsors at this tier receive the following bonus benefits:
- Your name (and optional URl) added to my personal website and my GitHub profile as an BLE Sponsor.
- A shout out from @petejohanson's Twitter account thanking you.
$25 a month
Select802.11 Sponsorship
The standard that spawned wardriving and freed the world from their cat5 tethers. Get your cantenna ready and make your signal heard.
Benefits
In addition to supporting my OSS work, sponsors at this tier receive the following bonus benefits:
- Your name (and optional URl) added to my personal website and my GitHub profile as an 802.11 Sponsor.
- A shout out from @petejohanson's Twitter account thanking you.
$500 a month
SelectLoRaWan Sponsorship
A long range protocol to have your sponsorship make some serious waves.
Benefits
In addition to supporting my OSS work, sponsors at this tier receive the following bonus benefits:
- Your name (and optional URl) added to my personal website and my GitHub profile as an LoRaWan Sponsor.
- A shout out from @petejohanson's Twitter account thanking you.
- I will join your personal private company chat (Slack/Discord/IRC/BBS) to answer technical questions and offer advice on how to use and develop for ZMK.