Thank you all for the great feedback, I am working on changing the monthly update format to have more of the data you’re looking for.
I really like how @cdsmith characterized our spending - the corporate sponsors currently pay for Emily and I to work on this full time, and while a lot of my time is focused on fundraising to ensure that we have the resources to help the community, Emily’s primary focus is on how to make things better.
Now that the Foundation is on sound financial footing and we have budget to work with, we are absolutely looking for ways to put our resources to use to help the community and move Haskell forward. Give us ideas, make proposals, let us know what you feel is important!
I think we have a few ways we can really leverage our resources:
- Shared community infrastructure (hardware, cloud time, etc.) available for Haskell libraries
- Contractor time to address deeper issues that are unreasonable for volunteers to work on
- Direct the GHC support priorities to focus on work that has particularly good downstream benefits
- A good example of this is the Extended Dependency Generation GHC proposal
I really like the community grants proposal, but keep in mind that we have budget right now and don’t need to wait if there’s a clear goal and ability to get it done. I think we should have a program like @cdsmith proposes, but I’m just saying we don’t have to wait for it to be approved before looking at proposals.
Finally, I am very happy to list individual HF donors, but as many of you are in this thread I’d like your thoughts: Do you want tiers, exact amounts donated, a listing in financial order, a listing by when you started supporting, or alphabetically? We appreciate you and want others to, as well.