Re : Re: Funding StumpWM

[Roland Everaert]

I agree that the, "what to fund?" question, is important and the first three 
items you propose are good first candidates to me.

As for the inevitable infrastructure cost increase, I have to admit, I don't 
know how heavy or a burden it could be.

Roland Everaert
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Le vendredi 25 décembre 2020 à 4:19 PM, tychoish <garen@tychoish.com> a écrit :

> There's also a github sponsorship system that might be more easy
>
> and straight forward. I've been using StumpWM daily for 10 years
>
> and it's incredibly valuable to me and I would gladly give some
>
> dollars to the project.
>
> Having said that, I wounder what our goals would be? Regardless of
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> our decision on "should we find a way to collect money for the
>
> project," it might be nice to have a conversation about what kinds
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> of things we want to spend time (and maybe money) on, just
>
> thinking out loud, this might include things like:
>
> -   more automated tests and CI infrastructure.
> -   breaking apart the monolithic "stumpwm" package
> -   documentation/API references.
> -   pure CL wayland library (???)
> -   wayland support, (???).
> -   migrate mcclim for the modeline/menus
> -   really cool multi-head features (different X screens per-head,
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>     plug-and-play integration, etc.)
> -   updating and modernizing contrib modules.
>
>     These are all kind of vague in my mind, and I don't know the
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>     relative priority or interest in any of them. Maybe it makes sense
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>     to have some kind of project meeting (IRC or audio/video) on some
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>     cadence (quarterly? semi-annually?) to talk about
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>     projects/priorities/etc. Aside from occasional emails and IRC, we
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>     actually talk to eachother very infrequently.
>
>     Relatedly, I've been thinking about seeing if there was interest
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>     in proposing that StumpWM become a Google Summer of Code project:
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>     I've mentored a few interns for the Buildbot project in 2013 and
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>     2014, and it's a fun program, and we'd both get dedicated
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>     resources working on a project and also (at least historically,)
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>     comes with some amount of compensation to projects themselves. I'm
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>     not sure if we have enough time to get a 2021 application in, but
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>     it might be a fun thing to do if other folks are into it too.
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>     Stump is also a project with, I think, relatively little
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>     organizational infrastructure, and it works pretty
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>     well. Collecting dollars would push us into having more
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>     infrastructure (bank accounts, leadership committees, etc.). Which
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>     wouldn't be a bad thing, and there are organizations (Conservancy,
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>     SSPI, etc.) that can help with some of the details, but it isn't
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>     "free", and is worth considering.
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>     Cheers,
>
>     sam
>
>     On Friday, December 25 2020, 08:14:40, Roland Everaert wrote:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > Maybe I have missed it, but I have found noway to donate to the
> >
> > project. Does any developer/maintainer of the project think
> >
> > about creating an account on platforms like patreon or liberapay
> >
> > for the project to gather some money to give allow them to
> >
> > dedicate some times and resources to the project, to implement
> >
> > particular features and subprojects?
> >
> > I would be more than happy and proud to be a recurring donator
> >
> > to a project, that, I think deserves it.
> >
> > So, using a well known meme to convey my request, "Shut up and
> >
> > take all my money" ;)
> >
> > Roland Everaert
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> > Use the F.O.S.S., Luke
> >
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