Thanks..and More

THANK YOU!

As 2023 comes to a close we want to reach out and thank you for supporting Clojure, open-source, and the Clojurists Together community.

We’ve been able to accomplish a lot this year with your support. Your input on our quarterly surveys is critical to ensuring that we are funding work that is needed, valued, and adopted by the community at large. We appreciate your subscription to our regular news and updates dispatches - as we believe it encourages wider use of the tools and resources of the developers we have funded - strengthening and advancing the open-source and Clojure community. It’s what we’re all about.

We’re hearing from about 25% of our members and subscribers on each of our quarterly surveys (which is actually pretty good as surveys go). In addition to requesting specific tools and improvements, we have heard a consistent call for better documentation (content, presentation, and organization) and more support for engaging and supporting new Clojure users. This year, we received and funded several proposals that focused on these needs and will continue to encourage work in these areas.

In 2023, we funded 30 shorter-term projects ($150,000 USD). 11 developers received a monthly stipend for the year ($187,500 USD in long-term funding). In total, we funded $337,500 of projects in 2023. Since 2018, Clojurists Together has awarded $935,000 to 76 developers working on more than 120 projects.

We encourage everyone in the Clojurist community to stay involved - by providing input on surveys and submitting project ideas for funding. In addition, members are able to vote on the annual Long Term Funding recipients as well as board members. The more ideas, solutions, and engaged members, the better!! And of course, as we increase membership funding, more resources will be available to fund important projects. In 2023, 93% of our membership revenue was allocated to projects – unheard of!! (You can join as a Developer or as a Company).

Hear from a few of our 2023 long-term developers:

    “Clojurists Together has helped me maintain and improve babashka, SCI,     clj-kondo while working on new projects like squint. I’m grateful that CT exists     to help the Clojure open source ecosystem thrive.” - Michiel Borkent

    “I greatly appreciate the funding from Clojurists Together to support my work     on Clojars! Clojars is a critical piece of infrastructure for the Clojure     community,and this funding allows me to focus on maintaining and     improving it.” - Toby Crawley

    “The continuous support for my work on CIDER by Clojurists Together     allowed me to keep it at the top of my OSS priorities and to provide a steady     stream of updates throughout the entire 2023. It’s safe to say that without     Clojurists Together CIDER wouldn’t be what it is today. Thanks a lot for your     support! You rock!” - Bozhidar Batsov

    “Clojurists Together long-term funding has enabled me to take days off work      and dedicate them to opensource projects, as well as providing a great     incentive to turn weekends into opensource project time. This has enabled me      to spend a lot of time working on https://clojure-doc.org – both reviewing and      updating existing content as well as writing a lot of new content, to reflect the      changes in the Clojure ecosystem over the last decade (much of the existing      content dated back to Clojure 1.4!) – in addition to supporting regular updates      and releases of projects that I’ve been maintaining somewhat irregularly over      the years.” - Sean Corfield

    “Thanks to Clojurist Together Long Term Funding I’ve been able to find quality      time on developing and maintaining open source libraries including malli, reitit     and others. I feel privileged for the support."- Tommi Reiman

FUN FACTS and THANK YOUS!

We are truly an international group bringing a wide range of experience. From Q1 2022 to Q3 2023, we funded developers working in 18 countries including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, UK and the US.

Our members are committed and find mentorship rewarding.

• 66% have been members since 2020.
• 82% have been developing in Clojure for 5 years or more.
• 88% have mentored others (formally or informally) or taught classes.

This staggering amount of work has benefited our members and the broader Clojurist community. A thanks goes out to all the developers for their commitment and contributions to the community over the last 6 years: Adam Helins, Alexander Oloo, Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant, Arne Brasseur, Ashima Panjwani, Baptiste Dupuch, Ben Brinckerhoff, Bobbi Towers, Bozhidar Batsov, Brandon Ringe, Bruce Hauman, Chris Badahdah, Charles Comstock, Christian Johansen, Christophe Grand, Dainius Jocas, Daniel Higginbotham, Danny Freeman, David Levy, David Nolen, Dragan Duric, Eric Dallo, Ethan Miller, Gert Goet, Grodziski, Henry Widd, Iizuka Masashi, Isaac Johnston, Jack Rusher, Jacob O’Bryant, James Reeves, Jeaye Wilkerson, John Stevenson, Joakim Tengstrand, Joel Holdbrooks, José Luis Lafuente, Juho Teperi, Karol Wójcik, Kira McLean, Konrad Kühne, Lee Hinman, Lukas Domagala, Martin Kavalar, Matthew Davidson, Matthew Huebert, Matthew Ratzke, Michael Sappler, Michiel Borkent, Mike Fikes, Mitesh Shah, Nikita Prokopov, Oleksii Kachaiev, Oliver Caldwell, Othman Azil, Peter Stromberg, Peter Taoussanis, Sam Ritchie, Savo Djuric, Sean Corfield, Sebastian Zartner, Thomas Heller, Tim Pope, Toby Crawley, Tommi Jalkanen, Tommi Reiman, Vladislav Protsenko, William Acton, Zach Oakes, Žygis Medelis, and the team at Gaiwan.

2023 developers receiving annual funding: Bozhidar Batsov, Michiel Borkent, Sean Corfield, Eric Dallo, Christophe Grand, Thomas Heller, Nikita Prokopov, Tommi Reiman, Peter Stromberg, Peter Taoussanis, and Toby Crawley.

In 2023, our shorter-term projects included: Aleph/Manifold, Biff, Bosquet, Clerk, clj-kondo et al, clj-Nix, Clojure Camp, clojure-ts-mode, Custom Formatters/Firefox. Deps-try. Donut, Doxa, Emmy, Exercism, GDL, Jank, Lucene Grep, Uncomplicate Neanderthal, Deep Diamond, Portfolio, and Quil.

Finally, a shout-out to the companies and organizations who have supported our work throughout the year and most for many years. They believe in Open Source development and have made a commitment to Clojure as an important tool for their product, service, and organizational projects. If your company might consider becoming a sponsoring member, please contact Daniel Compton at daniel@clojuriststogether.org to explore further.

Let’s join in celebrating this wonderful community - and hoping for peace in the New Year.

lvh, Maria, Daniel, Heather, Felix, Max (Clojurists Together Board), Kathy (Program Manager).