Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

[Joakim]

On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 20:45:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 8/13/18 5:50 AM, Joakim wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Thanks for the info. That's good for Nim and something we could 
> definitely benefit from as well. Currently, Sebastian Wilzbach 
> and Razvan Nitu, both students, are working full time with the 
> Foundation. Mike is our publishing and general PR person, 
> working a reliable part time. We are in talks with a few more 
> students from Romania and Brazil.

Good to know, didn't know Seb and Razvan were full-time.

> Our early experiments with bountysource were sadly 
> unsuccessful. I'm not writing it off but we'd probably need a 
> new angle for a new round of experimentation. Suggestions are 
> welcome.

I've never liked that bountysource website overall, but it does 
provide a way to fund specific issues.

> Regarding corporate sponsorship, we have been public about 
> being interested, but we haven't exactly beaten off offers with 
> a stick. I have personally asked our top users in several 
> instances for assistance. There has been some, but not to the 
> extent of allocating one or more full-time engineers. Shout out 
> to Laeeth Isharc whose enterprise has been far and away the 
> most generous, and to Weka as well for sharing with us some 
> time and resources at a crucial juncture for the company.

Good to hear those options are being explored.

> We've always been glad to take suggestions from individual 
> collaborators. Mike Parker would be the person to reach out to. 
> What would be best is to get some concrete action; 
> historically, the typical suggestion came in the form "here's 
> this great idea, you go work on it". Even that is fine if the 
> idea is fleshed out and argued convincingly. Better yet, 
> there's no better proof that an idea is good than to actually 
> execute it to demonstrable benefit.

OK, I'll try that then. The first step is to figure out what 
people want to pay for, so I will open a forum thread for that. 
Perhaps such feedback can also guide the funding targets on 
Opencollective, in addition to the survey data already collected.