Hi,

Why not the other way around? Having from the very beginning a clear goal
with a speculative budget, companies would have visibilitty about the end
goal of their donations. Otherwise is a bit a leap of faith.

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 02:15 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:

> Victor Stinner wrote:
> > That's great!
> > "The PSF will use Python development fundraising to support CPython
> > development and maintenance."
> > Does someone have more info about that? Who will get the money, how,
> etc.?
>
> No because we have to see how much money we get first. ;) Without knowing
> how much we will get then you can probably assume it will go towards core
> dev sprint sponsorships like the page states. After that probably the PM
> role we have been talking about on the steering council to help sunset
> Python 2, then a PM-like role to help with GitHub issue migration. That's
> as far as the steering council has discussed things with the PSF in terms
> of short-term, concrete asks for money and staffing.
>
> After that it's my personal speculation, but I would hope something like
> the Django fellowship program. If we could get enough money to fund like 4
> people to work on Python full-time it would be amazing and help us stay on
> top of things like pull requests.
>
> But all of this depends on companies actually giving money in the proper
> amounts in order to be able to do anything like this. I've been told by
> companies they have been wanting to donate money for ages but wanted to
> make sure it was helping Python's development. Well, this is their chance
> to prove they actually meant it. ;)
>
> > Victor
> > Le lundi 24 juin 2019, Brett Cannon br...@python.org...
> > a écrit :
> > > We now have https://www.python.org/psf/donations/python-dev/...
> > > for anyone
> > > to make donations via the PSF for directly supporting Python
> development
> > > (and we have the Sponsor button at https://github.com/python/cpython.
> ..
> > > pointing to this link).
> > > --
> > Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death.
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