Fundraising Updates: We did it!
Mike Parker
aldacron at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 15:14:03 UTC 2019
As many of you know, we've been running two fundraising campaigns
these days.
One was to raise $2000 to cover Vladimir Panteleev's costs for
the server that runs these forums and other services he maintains
for the D community (like the Wiki, the docs autotester, and
more).
https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDkzNjc=
I'm happy to announce that we have reached our goal! Donations to
both campaigns have been coming in rather slowly. As of this past
weekend, we had only raised $625 in the forum server campaign.
That changed after an email conversation I had over the weekend.
You may recall that last year we launched our first fundraiser
via our Open Collective page at:
https://opencollective.com/dlang
The target was $3000 for Jan "Webfreak001" Jurzitza, author and
maintainer of serve-d and code-d, the VS Code plugin. We had
arranged to pay the money to Jan in increments of $500 on the
completion of multiple milestones. He and I worked out his first
two milestones with the intention of mapping out another two once
they were completed.
Long story short, both milestones are nearly complete now (he
hasn't worked on them sequentially, and has done other tasks
besides). He still wants to wait until he completes them before
we payout the $1000 for the milestones. However, he has asked
that $1500 of the remaining $2000 be applied to the forum server
campaign. We have obliged.
Thus, our forum server campaign exceeded our target by $125 and
is now closed. The money will be transferred to Vladimir in short
order. The excess will be put toward the General Fund.
The second active campaign over the past few weeks has been the
2nd round of our Pull Request Manager campaign. Nicholas Wilson
is still on the job, still nursing the PR queues across the D
github repositories. We're aiming to raise $3000 by May 15 so we
can pay him for the preceding three months of work.
As I write this, we are sitting at $799 raised so far with 49
days remaining. We need a push to help us reach the goal in time,
so if you've got a few dollars to spare, please send them to our
PR Manager campaign here:
https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDUwNTY=
Thanks to everyone who has donated so far and to everyone who
will donate in the future.
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