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Excellent! Where's the Donate button or call to action for businesses who want to support this? There's a small link in the sidebar to "Donation page", but that doesn't seem to have a place to donate for the remove-the-GIL effort.



As mentioned in the blog post the individual donation buttons are not a resounding success. I'm happy to sign contracts with corporate donors (or even individuals) that we'll deliver. My mail should be public, if not #pypy on freenode or fijal at baroquesoftware.com


Is the issue that individual donations are unpredictable (and therefore difficult to use as justification for such a large scope increase)? Would you consider setting up something akin to a Patreon to allow individuals to commit to recurring monthly support for the project?


The main issue is that the effort it takes to setup and maintain it greatly outweighs the amount of money we get (typically). There is also complexity with taxation, jurisdictions and all kinds of mess that is usually very much not worth couple dollars (e.g. $7/week on gratipay for example)


> Since such work would complicate the PyPy code base and our day-to-day work, we would like to judge the interest of the community and the commercial partners to make it happen (we are not looking for individual donations at this point).




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