This initiative seems overdue by a couple years. I would like to offer some non-trivial portion of my time. Is there anywhere people could donate to ensure this becomes a valuable and positive community reality?
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:38 PM Alex Miller <a...@puredanger.com> wrote: > I don't think we have any official position on it, but I can respond to > various items that have been mentioned above in the thread: > > 1) Google Summer of Code - we (Cognitect) are again acting as a receiver > of stipends and distributor of travel funds this year but would happily let > another org do that instead. Cognitect currently provides free tickets for > GSOC students to attend once conference in the year following their > participation, and we would be happy to continue doing so. > > 2) clojure.org / documentation - we are very far along in the process of > open sourcing the content on http://clojure.org. All of the content for > the new version of the site is available at > http://github.com/clojure/clojure-site and open for contributions via > pull request. There are a bunch of issues there with things to do if you > want to help. I am spending most of my time right now finalizing the > staging/deployment/ci infrastructure for that and it is inching ever closer > to being ready to go live as the real site. > > 3) CLAs, github, jira, confluence, hudson - Cognitect does not have plans > to give up control of these sites. Community members have rights to access > these sites already. I have spent a fair amount of time moving towards > hosted cloud versions of some of these in the last couple months - the work > involved is ... painful. Once clojure.org is live, I plan to put these > back on priority list. > > 4) Conferences - Cognitect has no plans to give up the organization of the > three Clojure conferences we run (Clojure/Conj, Clojure/West, and > EuroClojure). Other people or organizations are of course welcome and > encouraged to create their own events - we already have great ones like > ClojureEx, clojureD, ClojuTre, Clojure Remote, etc. > > 5) Clojars - seems to have had a pretty successful time in seeking > sponsors for their ongoing support, which is great! This is a community > resource and I'm glad to see the community supporting it. > > 6) ClojureBridge - now has the ability to receive funds (go donate!) and > manage things via the Bridge Foundry. > > Given all that, it's not clear to me what role a Clojure community > organization would play. I think figuring out the goal is obviously the > important part. > > > > On Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 2:36:06 PM UTC-6, Daniel Compton wrote: > >> Hi Alex >> >> Following up on this, is there anything else you can share? >> >> Thanks, Daniel. >> > -- > 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. > -- 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.
