Hi Daniel. We've done all of the proposed scenarios. We had some success talking to companies, but there is a lot of resistance for various reasons (and the successful proposals I can't talk about), including the inability to pay open source from the engineering budget and instead doing it via the marketing budget (which is orders of magnitude slower). In short - you need to offer them something in exchange, which usually means you need to do a good job, but not good enough (so you can fix it for money). This is a very perverse incentive, btu this is how it goes.
As for kickstarter - that targets primarily end-user experience and not infrastructure. As such, it's hard to find money from users for infrastructure, because it has relatively few direct users - mostly large companies. As for who is working on this subject - I am. Feel free to get in touch with me via other channels (private mail, gchat, IRC) if you have deeper insights Best regards, Maciej Fijalkowski On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> wrote: > On 19 May 2016 at 14:58, <pypy-dev-ow...@python.org> wrote: >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Daniel Hnyk <hny...@gmail.com> >> To: pypy-dev@python.org >> Cc: >> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 12:58:36 +0000 >> Subject: Question about funding, again >> Hello, >> >> my question is simple. It strikes me why you don't have more financial >> support, since PyPy might save quite a lot of resources compared to CPython. >> When we witness that e.g. microsoft is able to donate $100k to Jupyter >> (https://ipython.org/microsoft-donation-2013.html), why PyPy, being even >> more generic then Jupyter, has problem to raise few tenths of thousands. >> >> I can find few mentions about this on the internet, but no serious article >> or summary is out there. >> >> Have you tried any of the following? >> >> 1. Trying to get some funding from big companies and organizations such as >> Google, Microsoft, RedHat or some other like Free Software Foundation? If >> not, why not? >> 2. Crowd founding websites such as Kickstarter or Indiegogo get quite a big >> attention nowadays even for similar projects. There were successful >> campaigns for projects with even smaller target group, such as designers >> (https://krita.org/) or video editors (openshot 2). Why haven't you created >> a campaign there? Micropython, again, with much smaller target group of >> users had got funded as well. >> >> Is someone working on this subject? Or is there a general lack of man power >> in PyPy's team? Couldn't be someone hired from money already collected? >> >> Thanks for an answer, >> Daniel > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > pypy-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
