Clojurists Together wants to fund you to work on your open source Clojure project

[Daniel Compton]

Hi folks

Clojurists Together is about to award another round of funding to support open source Clojure projects. Applications close on Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 at 11:59pm PST.

Clojurists Together is an organisation, dedicated to funding and supporting open source software, infrastructure, and documentation that is important to the Clojure and ClojureScript community.

We plan to fund each project at $3,000 USD/month for 3 months ($9,000 USD total). We're still working out exactly how many projects we will be able to fund this quarter, but it is likely to be at least 2.

Previously we have supported projects like Neanderthal, Aleph, Fireplace, cljdoc, Shadow CLJS, CIDER, Figwheel, clj-http and several more.

We surveyed our members recently and asked them what they wanted us to focus on.

Highly ranked items were:

• developer experience tools (49%)
• build tooling (37%)
• linters (34%)
• error messages (33%)
• IDE support (30%)
• documentation (19%)
• test tooling (24%)

Our members also mentioned these projects specifically: shadow-cljs, Duct Framework, Core.typed, CIDER, Clojuredocs, clj-doc, Eastwood, Cloverage, buddy, clj-kondo, Reagent, re-frame, FIgwheel Main, Cursive, Leiningen, Calva, Chlorine, Sente, Nippy, Rum, core.async, incanter, clj-pdf.

We encourage open source maintainers to apply for funding, especially if you work on one of the projects or areas that our members highlighted.

If you work at a company that uses Clojure, talk to your engineering manager about supporting Clojurists Together. We've been able to support projects thanks to the generosity of our developer and company members. The more support we have, the more that we can do to improve things for the entire Clojure community.

Thanks, Daniel.

[Daniel Compton]

Hi folks

I'm happy to announce that this quarter Clojurists Together is funding Shadow CLJS with Thomas Heller, Meander with Joel Holdbrooks, Calva with Peter Strömberg, and CIDER with Bozhidar Batsov. You can see more on the announcement at https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q3-2019-funding-announcement/. Thanks to all of the Clojurists Together members who helped make this happen.

-- Daniel.

[Matching Socks]

I am glad Clojurists Together has materialized community support for Calva (VSCode) - from two angles at once - top-down to Calva and bottom-up via CIDER, which shares its orchard of features.  Nonetheless, the Calva quest is quixotic.  The supposedly customizable Integrated Development Environment, time and again, has proved a difficult nut to crack.  Maybe Together we can do it!