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.
