Re: kawa paid support

[Dan Leslie <dan at ironoxide dot ca>]

FWIW, I've just opened a bug in Geiser noting the absence of Kawa
support, and have begun local changes to endeavour to resolve the
bug. Kawa strikes me as an under-appreciated Scheme, and a suitable
competitor to the likes of Clojure, and so I'd like to bring in
compatibility to my favourite tool set.

https://github.com/jaor/geiser/issues/55

-Dan

Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

> On 04/04/2015 10:01 PM, Alcides Flores Pineda wrote:
>> Hello Per:
>>
>> Do you have a PayPal account or something alike? If you do, please,
>> let us know.
>
> I do have a PayPal account, linked to per@bothner.com
>
> I don't want to mislead anyone: I'm far from destitute, and I could
> probably afford to retire with some modest belt-tightening and/or selling
> of assets.  But some of these assets (properties) have emotional
> attachment. My husband and I would feel more comfortable if money was
> coming in at least approaching the rate of money going out ...  (For example
> property taxes and health insurance are substantial fixed expenses.)
>
>> Maybe you can put a link to it in your blog or somewhere. I'm
>> thinking about possible ways you can begin making money through
>> Kawa... I don't know maybe also trying to do something more or less
>> what Xah Lee is doing in his blog
>> (http://www.ergoemacs.org/emacs/blog.html selling his
>> writings/tutorials) or maybe is time for us, the Kawa community to
>> start getting more formally organized and begin to financially
>> contribute to the project, search for sponsors, setup a wiki, collect
>> and share our experiencies using Kawa, compile/write an e-book, write
>> an emacs kawa-mode, speak & blog about Kawa, port libraries from
>> other Schemes, and so on... well just some thoughts.. and my 2
>> cents...
>
> It would be nice if Kawa wasn't a mostly-one-man project.
> Of course other people contribute in various ways, and that is
> very much appreciated, but 90% of the source code and documentation is mine.
> Much of that is my own fault - I have some control-freak tendencies, and
> I'm not very good at publicity.  But I think we're getting better:
> Multiple people have contributed code, documentation, and tests; multiple
> people are writing about Kawa, and using Kawa in interesting ways,
>
>> Thank you very much for creating Kawa and for all the great work you
>> have done with this project.
>
> You're all welcome.

-- 
-Dan Leslie