On Saturday, 5 May 2018 at 11:21:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
This morning at the Hackathon I announced that the D Foundation
is raising money for code-d/serve-d, the plugin for Visual
Studio Code and its companion Microsoft Language Server
Protocol implementation for D.
We've set up a goal of $3000 at our Open Collective page:
https://opencollective.com/dlang#
At the top of the page, you'll see our current balance, the
projected balance at the end of the year based on the current
level of monthly donations, and the goal of $3000 on the far
right.
We're sitting at just over $1100 as I write this, which means
we're almost halfway there already. We encourage those of you
who use Webfreak's VS Code plugin to contribute whatever you
can in order to fund its development, especially if you want to
see it improve.
An important point is that development on serve-d can
ultimately benefit not just code-d, but other IDE and editor
plugins where it may be used.
If we reach $2700 within 30 days, the D Foundation will throw
in the remaining $300 and we'll let Webfreak get to work.
If this proves successful, we hope to use future goals to fund
development across the D ecosystem. Some of our targets will be
driven by the results of the recent State of D Survey and
others will be driven by other concerns. If you are interested
in helping to move the state of D development forward, please
consider contributing!
I'm a little unclear how OpenCollective works. Do you have to
specifically donate to this goal, or does every donation made
just go to that? Furthermore, I don't really want to create an
OpenCollective account just to donate; I'd prefer to do it
directly with my Paypal. Is that possible?
Also, does anyone have an image of the supporter t-shirts? If
possible I want to donate an amount to get one of those.
