For the first few years of Plover's
development, it was financed by
donated money from Plover users
(including from Mirabai Knight, the
founder of the project), which went to
Plover's co-founder and original
developer, Josh Lifton, working at a
steep discount from his normal
freelance rates. Plover's current lead
developer, Theodore Morin, generously
volunteers his time to Plover and
doesn't take any donated money, so now
instead of using donations to fund
development directly, we're using it
to promote Plover in other ways. We've
used some of the money from donations
to buy stock for
The
Plover Store, whose profits will go back
into the Plover development pool. We used some
funds to begin the development of
Steno
Arcade, the
free steno tutorial arcade game (
now
available for download on Steam Early Access!), and are
currently crowdfunding the rest in
collaboration with
For
All To Play. Mirabai Knight takes no money from Plover donations.
Current funds in Plover's account:
$2,503 from donations
$2,201 from Plover Store sales
= $4,704 to put towards development of Steno Arcade
-$3,000: paid to For All to Play to fund Steno
Hero demo and Steno Arcade crowdfunding
campaign.
$1,704 held in reserve against future need.
Donations of money can be sent through PayPal:
Donations of code, documentation, artwork, and signal boosting are also very
welcome. We're also looking for ideas on revenue-raising merchandise such as
various objects emblazoned with the Plover
logo. Very soon we'll be launching the
campaign to raise funds for Steno Arcade. Stay tuned!
If you want to help, see the
Open
Steno Project Github for
information on known bugs and feature requests, or join the
Google Group to
talk about the current state of Plover development with its users and devs.
