A kind person is matching any donations up to $500 in the next 48 hours to Nim!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28993476
You can donate via any of the links in https://nim-lang.org/donate.html (scroll to bottom). Do let us know if you do so these donations can be matched :)
I still do not really understand it. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28993476
Any donations from HNers to the Nim project (in any kind of currency) I'll match for the next 48 hrs up to $500.
Even made a YC account because you said you would match HNers' donations
So I have additional to the PayPal donation to subscribe to HN? Makes not much sense to me, but well when it is needed I will do...
Cheers! Good times for Nim <3
50$ USD
I have been a recurring donor for a long time, and ended up going open collective despite the fees. I remember asking @araq a similar question a while ago. I don't remember the exact answer.
IIRC the main reason that is the top donation option is because it provides some non-profit organization like benefits without many of the legal, accounting, and management costs of running a non-profit.
For example, It provides a publicly auditable corporate bank account and expense reporting, as well as proper tax documents for donors for many countries.
This is from memory, so anybody with more up to date knowledge feel free to correct me.
Given the current influx of donation money, the Nim Foundation may get off the ground, in which case I suspect Nim will move away from Open Collective and use different mechanisms.
Of course I will gladly switch to that, or what ever the core devs think is best.