Hi, I asked about this last year, and thought I would post again, as it's the holiday season. I started a software consultancy <https://burke.services>last year, and I made a fair amount of money this year. A lot of my success was due to the Go programming language/community and I'd like to give back somehow.
As far as I understand, the core Go team and the build environments etc. are sponsored by Google and don't rely on the community for support. Unlike, say, the Python Software Foundation <https://www.python.org/psf/donations/>, there's no need or infrastructure to donate to the core language. So I'm trying to figure out the best place/sareas to donate. Is there a list somewhere? Some ideas: - **Donate to new core contributors** - are there any people who would like to do interesting work on the standard library, or could be contributing improvements in a new area, but aren't being paid by Google or their employer and need a sponsor to spend more time on it? - **Donate to third party libraries in need of support** - Are there critical third party libraries that need upgrading or infrastructure support, or time to build out new features? (Also: if you run a popular project and would like funding for more time on it, please explain to your readers the best way to pay you!) - **Donate scholarships** - what's the most cost effective way to help people new to programming, or from a disadvantaged background, get started? To conferences, meetups or to an organization like Hacker School. - **Donate my time** - Can I provide feature work or code reviews for free to e.g. community, nonprofit or government organizations, writing Go or otherwise? Apologies if this isn't the best place for this question, but I figure the people who read this email will know the best places to give. Thanks! Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
