[Announcement] Kivy funding.

[Gabriel Pettier]

Hi Kivy users and contributors!

For some time now we, the Kivy team, have been working to achieve stable
funding to go towards regular developer work on the Kivy framework. So
far the project has run on good will, love of sharing the results of our
efforts, the contributions of our many amazing contributors, and the
ability to make business needs fit with the open source way.

Nothing will change about that, but as Kivy has grown we've begun to
feel the need for regular dedicated project management time in order to
realize the potential of the framework. We would like to focus initially
on managing community contributions and bug triage, followed by actively
working on the biggest framework issues in need of sustained developer
effort.

For this reason, we have set up an OpenCollective project to collect
recurring donations, with the target of eventually supporting one or
more core developers working full time on the project.

The full details can be found on the Kivy OpenCollective page
(https://opencollective.com/kivy), but the initial scheme is simple: the
donations fill fund as much time as possible for Mathieu Virbel (tito)
to work on Kivy and sister projects, providing monthly reports on his
progress. There is no obligation of any kind, but, if you rely on Kivy
for your work, or just love it and can afford it, please consider
setting up recurring donations to allow us to achieve the best possible
Kivy ecosystem. When there is enough money, we will happily add more
core developers to that scheme, depending on availability, and increase
the pace.

We understand that finance depends a lot on location and situation, and
not everybody can contribute the same amount. If you have a small
business or are part of a big company that is using Kivy, consider that
you are probably in a much better position to help us than other users.


Best regards.