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The Erlang Language Server
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open source funding available from Gitpod #1025

Open ghuntley opened 3 years ago

ghuntley commented 3 years ago

Howdy,

As part of Gitpod's Open Source Fund initiative attendees of the DevX Conf were able to decide where $10,000 USD of funds (the profits from DevX Conf plus an additional donation by Gitpod) were to be distributed. We thought long and hard about what projects to include in the competition and pondered about:

  1. what exactly is digital infrastructure?
  2. what tools are relied upon by developers every day that are built and maintained almost exclusively by unpaid volunteers?.

After some dialectical thinking, the answer became clear: projects built by unpaid volunteers in the category of linters and language server protocol implementations.

Attendees of the DevX Conference were able to vote once for each of the projects and then distribution of funds was calculated using Quadratic Funding (Paper). See wtfisqf.com for a breakdown of how the fund was split. Each vote was considered as a share (or $1 matched) and then a total amount was set to $10,000.

Your open-source project was one of the competition entrants and there are funds outstanding that can be claimed by the project steward. If you wish to divert the funds to a cause that helps improve diversity in open-source such as Outreachy then that's possible!

See https://www.gitpod.io/blog/devxconf-wrap for more information.

robertoaloi commented 3 years ago

Hi @ghuntley !

What Gitpod is conducting is an awesome initiative and it's great to see so many LSP related projects being part of the funding list. We briefly discussed your proposal with the rest of the core maintainers and we concluded that, at least for the time being, Erlang LS development is quite self-sustainable, so we would be glad if you could divert the funds. Outreachy sounds like a great option!

Also let us know if there's anything that would benefit GitPod and its ecosystem that we can help with. We'll do our best!

robertoaloi commented 3 years ago

@ghuntley Is there anything we need to do to make this happen?

ghuntley commented 3 years ago

👋 Yes, add a https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository to your main branch and ping me when complete.

I can do distributions via either GitHub sponsors or opencollective. Funds can be distributed between nominated (sponsors.yml) maintainers, to the project as a whole or causes such as Outreachy.