This thread started with the specific hope of enlisting people to help with a one-time message. It seems clear that the Haskell community would benefit from sustained, long-term efforts to increase awareness of opportunities to financially support the Haskell ecosystem.
In light of this, I’m proposing we start the “Haskell Funding Advocates” team.
It could have the mandate to:
- increase the visibility of opportunities to financially support the Haskell community infrastructure and open source projects written in Haskell (this includes increasing the visibility of funding opportunities through github and patreon etc)
- serve as a focal point for sharing ideas and coordinating efforts to achieve the primary goal of increasing visibility.
- be respectful to the community by:
- being helpfully informative rather than intrusive
- not pressuring people to make donations
- operate with transparency
- encourage feedback from the community on financing related concerns
(By the way, I’m not an expert here. I’m willing to take the lead and make things happen, but I’m more than willing to let someone else lead and I would happily support them in their efforts.)
How does that sound?