[info-mcl] CCL IDE Pledge Drive Update

[Mark D Gross]

Some of us might be able to contribute if it was somehow a transaction 
with an invoice, receipt, etc. 
The accounting dept here won't go for "pledge" but surely there's a way ...


Andrew Shalit wrote:
> Hello MCL Users --
>
> I'm happy to report that the Clozure CL Development Environment Pledge  
> Drive is going well.
>
> We have received pledges totaling $19,150.  That brings us over 90% of  
> the way to our goal of $20,000.
>
> [Imagine thermometer graphic here, with red bar reaching almost to the  
> top.]
>
> Please help us reach our goal, so we can get down to work building the  
> best Common Lisp IDE anywhere.  When we announced the Pledge Drive, we  
> requested pledges of $500 or more.  At this time, we'd like to open it  
> up to contributions of any amount.  Every little bit will help us  
> reach our goal of $20,000.
>
> You can contribute directly through PayPal: just direct your payment "payments at clozure.com 
> ".  To make a pledge or payment another way, please contact me at alms at clozure.com 
> .
>
> Please make your pledge today.
>
> To recap:
>
> Our goal is to raise $20,000 to support two months of development on  
> the CCL IDE, running on Mac OS X.  This will allow us to greatly  
> improve the quality and reliability of the CCL IDE, and bring it into  
> the range of the MCL IDE.  Specific work will include
>
> 1. Improving and stabilizing the editor.  (Think Fred.)
> 2. Completing the other existing IDE tools (Processes, Apropos,   
> Inspect, Search Files).
> 3. Adding additional features and tools to the editor and the IDE    
> (e.g. multiple-font support, syntax coloring).
> 4. Simplifying the installation and build process to make CCL  
> available to more users, including Lisp newbies.
> 5. Reorganizing the IDE source code to encourage future development by  
> the CCL community.
>
> Thanks to all the people who have pledged so far.  If you have not yet  
> pledged, please consider making a contribution to support our work on  
> this free, open source software.  We need your support to make this  
> happen.
>
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
> Andrew Shalit
> Clozure Associates
>
>
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