Our New Pull Request and Issue Manager

[ryuukk_]

On Tuesday, 8 April 2025 at 09:00:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> A few months ago, Razvan stepped away from his PR and Issue 
> Manager role and into a new one as our Project Coordinator. 
> That left Dennis working the job alone. Without additional 
> funding, there would be no way for us to hire on someone new to 
> take over Razvan's empty spot.
>
> Today I can finally announce that funding for the new hire has 
> materialized, courtesy of WEKA. I can also publicly welcome 
> Nicholas Wilson to the DLF team. He's been doing part of the 
> job for quite some time on a volunteer basis, reviewing PRs 
> across our repositories. Now that he's getting paid for it, you 
> can feel free to pester him about your most annoying open 
> issues and PRs and we can throw more work at him!
>
> WEKA has also generously agreed to step up their funding for 
> DConf '25. We're facing increased costs across the board and 
> were looking at the real possibility of a significant increase 
> in the registration fee. The additional funding from WEKA 
> allowed us to actually lower the fee to $300 instead.
>
> Additionally, they have taken over a percentage of the funding 
> for the existing sponsored positions which are primarily funded 
> by Symmetry.
>
> We're extremely grateful for the support both Symmetry and WEKA 
> are providing us, and for all of the smaller scale support from 
> all of the donors across PayPal, Open Collective, GitHub, and 
> elsewhere.
>
> (For the record, all four sponsored staff--Razvan, Dennis, 
> Nicholas, and myself--are paid for 20 hours per week. I receive 
> $12,000/yr in sponsored funds and $14,400/yr from the general 
> donor pool. Razvan, Dennis, and Nicholas each receive 
> $25,000/yr in sponsored funds.)

Thanks to everyone at WEKA, very generous indeed!