Chris Waldon
@whereswaldon
Help me improve {free,libre,open} source and https://arbor.chat
Statement
Hey everyone! I'm Chris, and I hail from central North Carolina in the USA! I spend most of my free time working on {free,libre,open source} software, and I love doing it. Most of my time goes to Gio and to the Arbor Chat Project, though I also contribute to a number of other projects.
Gio provides the painless, cross-platform foundation that GUI development needs. I co-maintain Gio's examples repository, website, and CI systems. I am also the primary maintainer of Gio-x, the experimental or platform-specific extensions to the core libraries. Additionally, I manage the month community calls, office hours, and newsletters.
Arbor is an attempt to make instant messaging clearer, easier, and fairer by restructuring conversation into a tree. You can read all about it on our website. I created the project in 2018, and have been leading its development ever since.
My goal in asking for funds is threefold:
- To cover the operating expenses of the Arbor Chat Project:
- Infrastructure like domain names, servers, and bandwidth
- Fees to distribute applications for iOS, macOS, Windows, and in the Play Store
- Expert consultation like security audits or legal advice when composing Terms of Service
- To have money to use for contributor appreciation and small-scale promotion (stickers to hand out at events),
- And to be able to fund part- or full-time work on Gio, Arbor, and related open source projects, such as:
- technical writers
- designers (UX, graphical, etc...)
- developers (including myself)
My other work includes:
- Bug reports and fixes for
sourcehut
, particularly around source code annotations and artifact hosting kfreestyle2d
, the unofficial userspace Linux driver for the Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard
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