[hibernate-dev] Foundation and funding

Hello, As we're settling at Commonhaus, the topic of funding the foundation becomes increasingly relevant. Thankfully Hibernate projects are sponsored directly by several very invested companies, so resources (devs) are not a problem for us, and neither is infrastructure (CI). But Commonhaus itself obviously has admin/infrastructure costs and will need money. Without going as far as actively looking for funding, we could at least start by establishing revenue streams. Commonhaus happens to have a few things set up already for funnelling sponsorship from GitHub [1], we'd just need to enable it and direct the money to Commonhaus. I created a pull request [2] to do just that. Enabling sponsoring will require a separate change of settings on relevant repositories (which I think would be those of the major projects displayed on our websites). Of course there's no guarantee this will bring any money, but it's better than the 0% chance if we don't set this up. We could also set up dedicated "accounts" for Hibernate, so that contributions to Hibernate are clearly identified and can be used for Hibernate purposes. But: 1. We don't have an immediate need for that. 2. We can't do that independently from Commonhaus, which is the legal entity owning Hibernate. 3. I know Erin (in CC) has something planned for precisely this, something like delegated accounts in OpenCollective. We'd just need to spend some time figuring it out. WDYT? If you agree, please go to the PR [2] and approve. If not, please explain here or on the PR. Apart from that, I think we should document how to fund Hibernate in various places. I'm thinking of doing that on the website (one entry in each per-project menu + one page in the community section) and also in each project's README (a short subsection with one sentence + a link to the website). I'll try to send PRs for that at some point in the future, but please voice any concerns now. [1] https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-setting... [2] https://github.com/hibernate/.github/pull/5 Yoann Rodière Hibernate team