Very interesting. Thanks for putting this together! This seems like a good way for those of us (like me) that aren't software writers/maintainers to contribute to clojure. Thanks again. B.
On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 12:21:42 AM UTC+1, Daniel Compton wrote: > > Hi folks > > Today we are incredibly excited to announce Clojurists Together > <https://clojuriststogether.org/>. The goal of Clojurists Together is to > support important Clojure projects, by pooling donations from companies and > individuals in the Clojure community and then funding project maintainers. > > The Clojurists Together model is based off the successful Ruby Together > <https://rubytogether.org> project, which has been running for 2.5 years > now. It is run by a committee <https://clojuriststogether.org/team/> of > Clojure community members and lives under the Clojars organisation. Being > part of Clojars allows us to accept 501(c)3 charitable donations via the > SFC <https://sfconservancy.org/>. We’ve been (slowly) working on this for > more than a year now, and are looking forward to getting your feedback on > it. > > The announcement post > <https://clojuriststogether.org/news/introducing-clojurists-together/> has > more details, but briefly, there are two sides to Clojurists Together: > Companies > and individuals, and open source maintainers. > > *Companies and individuals* > > Companies and individuals sign up for a monthly donation to support > Clojurists Together at a tier they choose. Different tiers afford different > benefits. Company tiers are here > <https://clojuriststogether.org/companies/>, individual tiers are here > <https://clojuriststogether.org/developers/>. Every quarter, companies > are surveyed to find out which tools, libraries, and areas of the Clojure > ecosystem they think could be improved, or are important to them. We then > compile that information and use it to help us pick projects that will have > the biggest impact. > > *Open Source Maintainers* > > Every quarter open source maintainers can submit their project for funding > for the next quarterly funding period. You can see more on the application > here <https://clojuriststogether.org/open-source/>. We look through the > applications, and pick the projects that can make the biggest impact. We > fund projects based on the amount of support we get. The more support we > get from companies and individuals, the more projects we can support, and > the more hours we can pay them for. > > *What now?* > > - Encourage your managers to sign up for a company membership > <https://clojuriststogether.org/companies/>. For the next month, any > company or person that signs up will be marked as a founding member. > - If you are an open source maintainer, consider applying for funding > <https://clojuriststogether.org/open-source/>. > - If you are an individual developer, consider signing up for a developer > membership <https://clojuriststogether.org/open-source/>. > - Spread the word to other people you know that use Clojure > commercially. > - If you're a designer, and have some time to help us improve the site > design, logo, e.t.c. that would be incredible. Please contact us off list > for more on this. > > *Questions?* > > There may be some mistakes or things that don’t look right in there. > Please let us know if you have any questions, either here, or off-list at > h...@clojuriststogether.org <javascript:>. This project is for the > Clojure community, so we want your input on this. What works well, what > doesn’t work for you, what would you like to see? > > Thanks, from the Clojurists Together Committee > <https://clojuriststogether.org/team/>: > Toby Crawley, Bridget Hilyer, Maria Geller, Devin Walters, Daniel Solano > Gómez, Larry Staton Jr., Daniel Compton. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
