[pytest-dev] pytest and Mozilla's Open Source Support program

[Florian Schulze]

Hi!

I know Holger is on vacation for a while. I doubt he got time to handle 
this in August.

I would be available for development work. I got no experience with 
organizational and legal stuff in regard to US based foundations when 
living in Germany.

Regards,
Florian Schulze

On 8 Aug 2016, at 15:37, Bruno Oliveira wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:13 AM Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> via [1] (German) I just stumbled upon Mozilla's MOSS program[2].
>>
>> They have a track[3] where they found generic OSS projects furthering
>> their mission, and another one[4] (probably more relevant to us) 
>> where
>> they fund projects they use themselves. From what I've seen via
>> Dave Hunt, Mozilla is quite a heavy pytest user with various plugins
>> they wrote.
>>
>> The grants are between $10k and $250k. If time permits, this could
>> e.g. be used by Merlinux (i.e., Holger's company) to allow someone to
>> work on pytest (or possibly, tox/devpi - not sure if those are used 
>> at
>> Mozilla too?) full-time for a while.
>>
>
> That sounds great, but first we would need to find someone willing to 
> do
> the work. Does anybody on the mailing list volunteers? I can't 
> volunteer
> myself as I already have a full time job.
>
> Cheers,
> Bruno
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