Hi everyone! Recently pytest has been elected to receive a donation from Indeed.com, in their FOSS contributor fund initiative. On it, each month open source contributors who work at Indeed get the opportunity to vote for a project which will receive a monetary donation. Contributors for May have elected pytest to receive the donation for that month!
Congratulations everyone! I'm sure we are all happy and grateful to Indeed.com for their generous donation. We (me and a few other maintainers) have been talking with Duane, head of the Open Source at Indeed.com about how pytest could receive the donation. We have reached the conclusion that the best way for them to donate the money would be to a platform which accepts one-time, direct donations, for which we have chosen OpenCollective. OpenCollective is a good fit in this case because Indeed wants to make a one-time donation directly to the pytest project. Tidelift has been considered for that, given that we are already members and are happy with it in general, but with conversations with Keenan (Developer Engagement at Tidelift) it became clear that the Tidelift model, which is long-time subscriptions targeted to companies, was not a good fit for this case. Besides this recent donation, over the years many times people have approached pytest team members wanting to make a small donation for the project, but we never really had a venue for them to do so, and OpenCollective seems to fit the bill nicely for this case: one-time or recurring donations directly to the project, from companies or individuals. I've setup an Open Collective account for pytest at: https://opencollective.com/pytest I would like to add all core maintainers to the collective (active or not), and have already added a few, but I'm afraid I don't have all the emails from the list of core maintainers: https://github.com/orgs/pytest-dev/teams/core/members So if you are a core maintainer and don't receive an email with an invitation in the next couple of days, please message me in private so I can add you. The purpose of the collective, so far, is to fund future gatherings (for example, Florians has some plans in the background about another Sprint sometime next year) and overall maintenance. Nothing more concrete than that, but we should be nailing down the details in the next few days. I plan to also add a document to the repository (similar to what was done with Tidelift) clearly describing the objectives and guidelines of the collective. Cheers!
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