On 26 July 2016 at 04:52, Chris Barker
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Nathaniel Smith
wrote: note: for a higher level of support, the PSF _could_ follow the numfocus approach: NumFocus is a properly set-up non-profit that can act as a gateway for particular projects, so that the individual projects don't need to set up all that accounting and legal infrastructure:
http://www.numfocus.org/information-on-fiscal-sponsorship.html
However, there is still a pretty big barrier to entry to become a sponsored organization, as there should be.
The PSF has considered this, but there's not a lot of value we could provide above and beyond other organisations that already do this for open source projects in general. For example: - Software Freedom Conservancy - Software in the Public Interest - Outercurve Foundation However, similar to the more direct crowdfunding options, pointing folks towards organisations like these via the publisher-facing pages in Warehouse is certainly something that could be done, especially as their download counts start to grow. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia