DSoC + Kickstarter?

[Mr. Anonymous]

On Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 08:33:10 UTC, Mr. Anonymous wrote:
> As you probably know, the application of D to GSoC 2013 has 
> been rejected.
> There was an idea about running the program nonetheless, minus 
> the funding:
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.613.1365489754.4724.digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com
>
> Can't we use Kickstarter to fund it?

Seems like KolibriOS did exactly this:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kolibrios/kolibrios-help-us-hold-our-own-summer-of-code-2013

It's probably too late for D now, though.