Re: Funding StumpWM

[tychoish]

[I accidentally sent this to Roland directly, but I think it may be interesting 
for the entire list. Sorry about that.]

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 
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 
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, 
 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 
relative priority or interest in any of them. Maybe it makes sense 
to have some kind of project meeting (IRC or audio/video) on some 
cadence (quarterly? semi-annually?) to talk about 
projects/priorities/etc. Aside from occasional emails and IRC, we 
actually talk to eachother very infrequently.

Relatedly, I've been thinking about seeing if there was interest 
in proposing that StumpWM become a Google Summer of Code project: 
I've mentored a few interns for the Buildbot project in 2013 and 
2014, and it's a fun program, and we'd both get dedicated 
resources working on a project and also (at least historically,) 
comes with some amount of compensation to projects themselves. I'm 
not sure if we have enough time to get a 2021 application in, but 
it might be a fun thing to do if other folks are into it too. 

Stump is also a project with, I think, relatively little 
organizational infrastructure, and it works pretty 
well. Collecting dollars would push us into having more 
infrastructure (bank accounts, leadership committees, etc.). Which 
wouldn't be a bad thing, and there are organizations (Conservancy, 
SSPI, etc.) that can help with some of the details, but it isn't 
"free", and is worth considering.

Cheers,
sam

On Friday, December 25 2020, 08:14:40, Roland Everaert wrote:

> 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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