I've created a Patreon "About me" <https://www.patreon.com/marpa>, which very briefly summarizes the history and current status of Marpa:
"In 2007, I decided to create a parsing tool based on Earley's algorithm -- like yacc, but more powerful. I called it Marpa. In technical terms, this succeeded beyond my imaginings: Marpa was what people had originally hoped yacc would be. "Marpa was a joy to work on and I had been lucky with Sun stock options, so, for several years, I was glad to self-finance my work on Marpa. Unfortunately, this self-financing can no longer continue -- to the degree that I cannot find support for my Marpa work from the open-source community, I must turn my energies elsewhere. "I will always work on Marpa, to whatever degree I can. Your generous contributions can help. Thank you!" I currently do not intend to create any Patreon- or donor-specific content. My thought is that the open-souce nature of Marpa-related stuff is important to the community -- even to the community members who are donors. I've stated a goal of $2500 a month, which would allow me to work on Marpa full-time going forward. Patreon suggests that I set "pledge levels", so here's what I did: $1/mo symbolizes your support, and symbols can add up. $10/mo is something you might consider if you get real benefits from Marpa, and feel you are in a position to pay those back. $100/mo would be a major step toward the goal. The pledge levels are only thoughts -- Patreon allows contributions of all sizes. I've already received a lot of wonderful support from the Marpa community in terms of volunteer time. Money has become important and will be going forward, but I want to emphasize how grateful I am to those who contribute time and effort. Thanks, Jeffrey Kegler -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to marpa-parser+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
