I've forwarded Donald this conversation. He said he is working on some of the finer details. He's up for chatting more in NYC next week so if we want to collect a set of questions it might be easy to get them all figured out there.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:06 PM Stefan van der Walt <stef...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:54:16 -0500, Andy Ray Terrel wrote: > > FYI, Donald Fischer will be at the NumFOCUS forum next week if folks want > > to talk to him about it. It looks like individuals sign up with Tidelift > > and perform services to be paid this money. Looking at the contract it > > doesn't seem like something that works with anything but individuals or > for > > profit companies. Thus I don't know that "Numpy is eligible" more that > > "Numpy developers are eligible". > > On the website, they ask that all the maintainers discuss together how > the funds will be applied (the total given is for the project as a > whole). > > This seems tricky: all the maintainers are spending their time on the > project. Which ones will get paid? Will the ones getting paid be > expected to put in extra hours on top of what they are already doing, or > will they carry a more "formal" responsibility? Perhaps it makes sense > to fund specific activities, such as being release manager, that > increase the amount of time donated to the project? > > There are other subtleties: some developers work for companies that do > not allow them to get paid for external consulting, others have visa > issues that prevent them from working for compensation. > > One useful gain could be to incentivize those who would otherwise not be > able to contribute. Parents taking care of children, those who take > second jobs to survive, students, etc. [0] > > Best regards, > Stéfan > > > [0] Quoting Fernando Pérez: "When people are expected to work on open > source software for free, only the people who can afford to work for > free can participate". > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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