Support the Django Software Foundation
A short while ago, we announced the creation of the Django Software Foundation, a non-profit organization that exists (among other reasons) to sponsor Django coding sprints and other events for our community.
Now, we're kick-starting the foundation by holding a fundraising drive.
With Django 1.0 around the corner, our immediate goal is to raise enough money to support the upcoming pre-1.0 coding sprints, which bring developers together in the real world for highly productive design and programming sessions. After the 1.0 release, we're planning to fund regularly scheduled sprints, user meet-ups and other community events.
It sounds a bit cheesy, but: with your help, we can make these things happen.
If you enjoy using Django and believe in our mission and goals, please consider making a donation:
For more information, see our donation FAQ or our more general foundation FAQ. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have more questions.
And, attention companies! We're also forming a corporate sponsorship program. If you represent a business that would like to join the DSF as a sponsor member, please let us know.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program(ming). Thanks for tolerating this fundraising announcement; we'll try to keep these to a minimum.
Posted by Adrian Holovaty & Jacob Kaplan-Moss on July 14, 2008
Comments
Dougal Matthews July 15, 2008 at 2:59 a.m.
I hope for some UK events!
Shabda Raaj July 15, 2008 at 5:11 a.m.
Please consider adding a paypal donate button. A much larger number of people use Paypal than Google Checkout!
Marijn July 16, 2008 at 4:59 a.m.
Paypal would make me do a donation as well. It's quite a hassle to set up an account and transfer money from Europe to a thing like Google Checkout which is in the U.S.
Jökull July 16, 2008 at 1:11 p.m.
A list of donators would be nice.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss July 16, 2008 at 2:01 p.m.
Shabda, Marijn: Other donations options, including Paypal are on the todo list. I hadn't realize that Google Checkout was a pain for people outside the US; sorry!
Jökull, Nicola: I'm working on it; thanks for the suggestion.
Benj. July 24, 2008 at 7:45 p.m.
You should considering opening a "cause" on Facebook, so I can easily pressure all my friends.
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Nicola Larosa July 15, 2008 at 1:36 a.m.
Done.
Please list contributors, shamelessly copying the PSF donations page, ranking included:
http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
Great work!