Organize funding to fill in gaps in the ecosystem

[djc]

It would be great if, similar to for example the Python Software Foundation, there was a source of funding to support the ecosystem. The idea is just to contact friends of Rust for some (ideally recurring) donation, and then put together a board that doles out small amounts of cash to specific proposals that seem valuable to the ecosystem in some way.

[aturon]

cc @ashleygwilliams

Rather than going through a board, the core team's preference has been to do this in more of a "matchmaking" style: people can create patreons or other proposals, and we can gather these into a central place that donors can peruse to see what they're interested in funding. That cuts down on overhead and political issues.

[djc]

Can you explain more about "overhead and political issues"? The "matchmaking" style sounds like it would not be very open/transparent, and might prevent a level playing field.

[aturon]

Here's a roster for support: http://aturon.github.io/sponsor/

[djc]

That looks like a good start at making this open/transparant, thanks for working on that.