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title: 'Jekyll and Sponsoring'
title: "Sponsoring Jekyll's development"
date: 2018-06-26 16:00:00 +0200
author: oe
categories: [community]
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from individuals and companies alike. It's specifically designed for open source and
many other projects already use it for funding.
Sponsoring is, for us, a method to finally realize some of the more ambitious goals we've had
with the project for years. The closest thing we want to realize is to __release Jekyll 4.0, and
to make it as polished as we can__. In the future, we would also like to work on other things that
will improve the Jekyll ecosystem. Here's a couple of ideas:
- Create a comprehensive official plugin and theme directory site
- Improve tooling built around measuring and improving Jekyll's performance
- Improve maintenance for official plugins
- Including the community into official decisions; making Jekyll more friendly to folks in the community
Again, these are just some ideas, but with the help of sponsoring, they are now one step closer
to being realized :heart:
With that, we would like to announce our very first sponsor: [__Forestry.io__](https://forestry.io)! Forestry is
a CMS that integrates with your Jekyll sites and lets you update content using a beautiful
interface, and then automatically commits it back to your GitHub repository. We're excited to have
@ -46,4 +59,4 @@ you can consider a small monthly donation to our [OpenCollective page](http://op
If your company heavily relies on Jekyll, consider sponsoring us! Contact me at
`olivia at fastmail dot com` and we'll figure something out together.
Thanks for sticking with us, and happy Jekylling! :tada:
Thanks for sticking with us, and happy Jekylling! :tada: