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