I've created a Patreon "About me" <https://www.patreon.com/marpa>, which very briefly summarizes the history and current status of Marpa:
"In 2007, I decided to create a parsing tool based on Earley's algorithm -- like yacc, but more powerful. I called it Marpa. In technical terms, this succeeded beyond my imaginings: Marpa was what people had originally hoped yacc would be. "Marpa was a joy to work on and I had been lucky with Sun stock options, so, for several years, I was glad to self-finance my work on Marpa. Unfortunately, this self-financing can no longer continue -- to the degree that I cannot find support for my Marpa work from the open-source community, I must turn my energies elsewhere. "I will always work on Marpa, to whatever degree I can. Your generous contributions can help. Thank you!" I currently do not intend to create any Patreon- or donor-specific content. My thought is that the open-souce nature of Marpa-related stuff is important to the community -- even to the community members who are donors. I've stated a goal of $2500 a month, which would allow me to work on Marpa full-time going forward. Patreon suggests that I set "pledge levels", so here's what I did: $1/mo symbolizes your support, and symbols can add up. $10/mo is something you might consider if you get real benefits from Marpa, and feel you are in a position to pay those back. $100/mo would be a major step toward the goal. The pledge levels are only thoughts -- Patreon allows contributions of all sizes. I've already received a lot of wonderful support from the Marpa community in terms of volunteer time. Money has become important and will be going forward, but I want to emphasize how grateful I am to those who contribute time and effort. Thanks, Jeffrey Kegler -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
