[pytest-dev] Indeed.com FOSS Contributor Fund and OpenCollective

[Bruno Oliveira]

Hey everyone,

I've open a PR adding information about OpenCollective and Tidelift to the
docs:

https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/5527

I've added a few maintainers as reviewers, but everybody is encouraged to
comment.

Cheers,
Bruno

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 6:55 PM Bruno Oliveira <nicoddemus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> Recently pytest has been elected to receive a donation from Indeed.com, in
> their FOSS contributor fund initiative. On it, each month open source
> contributors who work at Indeed get the opportunity to vote for a project
> which will receive a monetary donation. Contributors for May have elected
> pytest to receive the donation for that month!
>
> Congratulations everyone! I'm sure we are all happy and grateful to
> Indeed.com for their generous donation.
>
> We (me and a few other maintainers) have been talking with Duane, head of
> the Open Source at Indeed.com about how pytest could receive the donation.
> We have reached the conclusion that the best way for them to donate the
> money would be to a platform which accepts one-time, direct donations, for
> which we have chosen OpenCollective.
>
> OpenCollective is a good fit in this case because Indeed wants to make a
> one-time donation directly to the pytest project. Tidelift has been
> considered for that, given that we are already members and are happy with
> it in general, but with conversations with Keenan (Developer Engagement at
> Tidelift) it became clear that the Tidelift model, which is long-time
> subscriptions targeted to companies, was not a good fit for this case.
>
> Besides this recent donation, over the years many times people have
> approached pytest team members wanting to make a small donation for the
> project, but we never really had a venue for them to do so, and
> OpenCollective seems to fit the bill nicely for this case: one-time or
> recurring donations directly to the project, from companies or individuals.
>
> I've setup an Open Collective account for pytest at:
>
> https://opencollective.com/pytest
>
> I would like to add all core maintainers to the collective (active or
> not), and have already added a few, but I'm afraid I don't have all the
> emails from the list of core maintainers:
>
> https://github.com/orgs/pytest-dev/teams/core/members
>
> So if you are a core maintainer and don't receive an email with an
> invitation in the next couple of days, please message me in private so I
> can add you.
>
> The purpose of the collective, so far, is to fund future gatherings (for
> example, Florians has some plans in the background about another Sprint
> sometime next year) and overall maintenance. Nothing more concrete than
> that, but we should be nailing down the details in the next few days.
>
> I plan to also add a document to the repository (similar to what was done
> with Tidelift) clearly describing the objectives and guidelines of the
> collective.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
>
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