Funding code-d

Michael michael at toohuman.io
Fri Jul 13 15:05:05 UTC 2018


On Friday, 13 July 2018 at 14:20:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> As promised in my tweet of June 30 (and to the handful of 
> people who emailed me), the cloud of mystery surrounding the 
> use of the money raised for code-d and its supporting tools has 
> now been (partially) lifted!
>
> In this post, I lay out the details of how the first $1000 will 
> be paid out to project maintainer Jan Jurzitza, a.k.a 
> Webfreak001, and explain what we hope to achieve with this 
> ecosystem fundraising initiative going forward.
>
> This time around, it all came together in the background of 
> prepping for DConf with little forethought beyond activating an 
> Open Collective goal and then working with Jan to determine the 
> details. Lessons were learned. Later this year, you'll see the 
> result when we announce the next of what we hope to be an 
> ongoing series of funding targets.
>
> In the meantime:
>
> The blog
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/07/13/funding-code-d/
>
> Reddit
> https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8yka7b/funding_coded_the_d_blog/

I think this is a worthy cause for the money. I'm glad to see the 
D foundation looking more towards investing in these kinds of 
community projects, as they make up the D ecosystem that many 
opponents of D describe as lacking.


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