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[Armin Rigo]

On 19 May 2016 at 14:58,  <pypy-dev-owner at python.org> wrote:
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> From: Daniel Hnyk <hnykda at gmail.com>
> To: pypy-dev at python.org
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> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 12:58:36 +0000
> Subject: Question about funding, again
> Hello,
>
> my question is simple. It strikes me why you don't have more financial support, since PyPy might save quite a lot of resources compared to CPython. When we witness that e.g. microsoft is able to donate $100k to Jupyter (https://ipython.org/microsoft-donation-2013.html), why PyPy, being even more generic then Jupyter, has problem to raise few tenths of thousands.
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> I can find few mentions about this on the internet, but no serious article or summary is out there.
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> Have you tried any of the following?
>
> 1. Trying to get some funding from big companies and organizations such as Google, Microsoft, RedHat or some other like Free Software Foundation? If not, why not?
> 2. Crowd founding websites such as Kickstarter or Indiegogo get quite a big attention nowadays even for similar projects. There were successful campaigns for projects with even smaller target group, such as designers (https://krita.org/) or video editors (openshot 2). Why haven't you created a campaign there? Micropython, again, with much smaller target group of users had got funded as well.
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> Is someone working on this subject? Or is there a general lack of man power in PyPy's team? Couldn't be someone hired from money already collected?
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> Thanks for an answer,
> Daniel