Hey everyone, I've open a PR adding information about OpenCollective and Tidelift to the docs:
https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/5527 I've added a few maintainers as reviewers, but everybody is encouraged to comment. Cheers, Bruno On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 6:55 PM Bruno Oliveira <nicodde...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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