Funding code-d

[Joakim]

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/

Nice explication of the plan, really needed. Why github never 
rolled out such a bounty program for OSS and other public 
projects has to be one of the head-scratching moves of all time, 
no wonder they were about to run out of money before they sold.

A good way to decide on future projects would be to let 
prospective donors stake money on various proposals, to see how 
much backing they might receive, sort of like how kickstarter and 
other crowdfunding sites work.