I'm delighted to be able to say that AppNexus has decided to sponsor Libevent in 2012! In their words,
"AppNexus is happy to support the continuous development of Libevent by sponsoring the project for the 2012 year. Continued development of open source, non-profit projects is critical to the success of the tech community as a whole. We recognize the hard work open source developers are making every day to improve the technology, and we hope our sponsorship will make further development possible." AppNexus has generously donated $10,000 towards this year's Libevent development efforts. I'm spending some of this on hardware upgrades, and keeping some for my pizza-beer-books-and-videogames fund, but I'd like to use the bulk of it to encourage people to hack parts of Libevent. I'm thinking of offering a $500-$100 or so apiece for a few tasks that have been annoying the community for a while, and which require either time or expertise that I don't have. I've got a few ideas (notably IOCP issues, better benchmarking, the evhttp->libevhtp translition, pluggable dns backends, smarter multithreading), but I want to hear your ideas too. Please send them to me **OFF LIST**, and I'll summarize what people are thinking late next week. best wishes to all, -- Nick Mathewson *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
