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Make Common Lisp successful!
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Great
Perfect for individuals!
Fan
10$/month — 10$ one time — 50$ in total
Thank you very much! I appreciate your help.
Ally
25$/month — 25$ one time — 250$ in total
Thank you for helping build a better future!
Leader
50$/month — 50$ one time — 500$ in total
You are inspiring! Thank you for being here.
Tremendous!
Perfect for small and medium businesses!
Crusader
100$/month — 100$ one time — 1000$ in total
HOLY COW!! You are driving the revolution!
True Professional
250$/month — 250$ one time — 2500$ in total
You really know what you're doing!
Serious Business™
500$/month — 500$ one time — 5000$ in total
You're legit!
EPIC!!!
Perfect for huge corporations!
Visionary
1000$/month — 1000$ one time — 10000$ in total
You get it.
Luminary
2500$/month — 2500$ one time — 25000$ in total
Your eminence heals the world. ☯
Big Shot
5000$/month — 5000$ one time — 50000$ in total
The world is your playground. 🧐
WTF?!?
Perfect for truly world-class unicorns!
Dignitary
10000$/month — 10000$ one time — 100000$ in total
Your gravitas is overwhelming!
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I've been doing Common Lisp related work intensively for 14 years, including more than a decade of Common Lisp Open Source.
I am a top Common Lisp Open Source contributor. See my extensive contributions at HexstreamSoft.
Your generous sponsorships help me implement these exciting features faster! I have several high-impact contributions on the way, many of which will land in 2021.
Having already contributed 30+ ready-to-use libraries in Quicklisp, some of which are highly innovative, I am experiencing growing success in adapting my extreme modularity skills to bigger, higher impact projects.
Creating important Common Lisp community resources has been a particular focus of my work, and I will continue to invest heavily in this endeavor.
I am spearheading the nascent movement to make Common Lisp a top 5 programming language by 2040. I believe this is eminently achievable given proper approaches.
Be sure to check my CV for a comprehensive overview of my extensive contributions and skills.
Want to know even more about me? I shared many details of my personal life and technical setup in my awesome Planck EZ interview (submission).
In the interest of radical transparency, here is Too Much Information™ about me. I hope it inspires you.
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Making Common Lisp successful should be enough reason to sponsor me, but to help further incentivize and reward sponsorship, select public sponsors are eligible for more concrete perks as well.
HexstreamSoft's impressive statistics on Alexa indicate intense interest in my work.
Sponsoring me is thus an easy and guaranteed way to boost your visibility in the Common Lisp world, assuming you are eligible for Advanced Perks.
All public sponsors are eligible for Basic Perks, which is your badge on my GitHub Sponsors profile and my GitHub profile.
Read on for Advanced Perks.
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Advanced Perks are awarded to select public sponsors, to help them broadcast their love of Common Lisp to the world!
Advanced Perks are only ever activated on request, and you can subsequently opt-out temporarily or permanently at any time.
Traces of your activity may remain in the log and the commit histories of relevant repositories such as sponsors.hexstreamsoft.com and www.hexstreamsoft.com.
Generally, individuals and companies that are in some way related to Common Lisp (such as if they use Common Lisp internally) are eligible for Advanced Perks,
while individuals and companies that are not in some way related to Common Lisp will not be. I reserve the right to make exceptions both ways, at my sole discretion.
Please consider contacting us before sponsoring to verify your eligibility for Advanced Perks.
Note that we do not consider Lisp dialects other than Common Lisp to be related to Common Lisp.
HexstreamSoft specializes in Common Lisp specifically, and is not in any way interested in any other Lisp dialects.
HexstreamSoft is a site entirely dedicated to Common Lisp, which thus attracts an audience interested in Common Lisp.
Companies whose services or products I love and use heavily within the scope of my Common Lisp related activities
are likely to be eligible for Advanced Perks, even if the company providing them is not otherwise related to Common Lisp.
I reserve the right to temporarily or permanently revoke access to Advanced Perks to specific individuals or companies if there are overriding ethical or other concerns, at my sole discretion.
Should that happen, a reason will be publicly logged and I will make a good faith attempt to notify the affected party.
Impersonation and any other forms of misrepresentation are strictly forbidden.
You may be required to prove your identity, affiliation or authorization before being given access to Advanced Perks or while requesting certain changes.
Standards of proof are determined on a case-by-case basis at my sole discretion.
I reserve the right to evolve these eligibility criteria over time.
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Your Credited Amount is simply the amount of money that I receive thanks to your sponsorship.
This is a direct measure of your benevolent and much appreciated impact on my finances.
All attributions of perks are based directly on your Credited Amounts.
Your Total Credited Amount is simply the sum of all your Credited Amounts, of course.
If you sponsor on GitHub and they double your amount, then your Credited Amount is twice what you paid.
GitHub never charges any fees on donations from individuals. The fee for organizations is 3% or 6%.
Beware of prorating! For instance, if you are halfway through your billing cycle and start sponsoring, then you pay half and get credited for half.
See the log for our extensive transparent accounting of sponsorships.
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Monthly Perks grant you a prominent place on the HexstreamSoft front page and the HexstreamSoft Sponsors front page for a limited time, thereby significantly increasing your company's mindshare in the Common Lisp world by acknowledging your important contribution towards making Common Lisp successful. This can for instance enhance your ability to attract top Common Lisp talent.
You earn Monthly Perks Credits (MPCs) in direct proportion to your Credited Amounts. You can then spend said Monthly Perks Credits at any time you like to buy ad placement. Monthly Perks Credits never expire. This system provides you with tremendous flexibility and convenience.
We publicly track Monthly Perks Credits earned and spent.
The following table lists the cost in Monthly Perks Credits for running an ad for 30 days.
The cost is prorated if the ad runs for less than 30 days.
Mostly due to technical limitations, there is currently a minimum running time of 7 days.
Contact us to schedule your ads.
| Ad kind | Cost |
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| Medium Image | 100 |
| HUGE Image | 500 |
| HUGE Custom Ad | 1000 |
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Lifetime perks give you a permanent presence in our Lifetime sponsors section!
This gives you a tremendous and permanently increasing return on investment at no additional cost!
You will simply be added to the highest Lifetime tier you have achieved according to your Total Credited Amount.
Additionally, placement within each tier is determined by the Total Credited Amount of each sponsor, with bigger totals placed higher.
The kind of ad that will be featured in the Lifetime sponsors section depends on your Lifetime tier, as indicated in the following table.
| Tier name | Cost | Ad kind |
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| Fan | 50$ | Name |
| Ally | 250$ | Linked Name |
| Leader | 500$ | Small Avatar |
| Crusader | 1000$ | Medium Image |
| True Professional | 2500$ | Medium Image |
| Serious Business™ | 5000$ | Medium Image |
| Visionary | 10000$ | HUGE Image |
| Luminary | 25000$ | HUGE Image |
| Big Shot | 50000$ | HUGE Image |
| Dignitary | 100000$ | HUGE Custom Ad |
In this context, HUGE Custom Ad can be updated up to 4 times per 30 days.
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All images and landing pages must be Safe For Work and are subject to approval.
All ad links always open in a new tab.
Contact us to choose your options and validate your ads, or if you have any questions.
Consider contacting us before sponsoring to validate your use-cases.
Name
Your name and/or nickname.
Nicknames may be subject to approval.
Not available for companies.
Examples:
- Jean-Philippe Paradis
- Hexstream
- Jean-Philippe Paradis (Hexstream)
Linked Name
Same as Name, except your name and/or nickname can link to your personal
GitHub or LinkedIn profile or Common Lispers list entry, at your option.
GitHub and LinkedIn links will be marked rel="sponsored nofollow",
while Common Lispers list links will be marked rel="sponsored".
Not available for companies.
Examples:
Small Avatar
Same as Linked Name, but also includes a 128x128 PNG or JPG image.
On narrow viewports, image width is ≤30% of full width.
Not available for companies.
Medium Image
A PNG or JPG image representing or associated with you or
a company, product, service or brand you are affiliated with
and authorized to represent and promote in such manner,
linking to it with rel="sponsored nofollow noreferrer".
A "company" is any registered or unregistered organization.
The image may optionally also include the associated name.
The image cannot include any slogans or similar messages.
Image requirements:
- Must be between 455x256 (16:9) and 256x256 (1:1).
- Must be high-quality.
- Must look great on a white page.
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Must not look too weird, confusing,
objectionable, generic or out of place.
On narrow viewports, image width is ≤55% of full width.
HUGE Image
Same as Medium Image, except exactly 4 times bigger:
between 910x512 (16:9) and 512x512 (1:1).
On narrow viewports, image width is almost full width.
HUGE Custom Ad
Same as HUGE Image, except:
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The image features any content you like, subject to approval.
The link can point anywhere, subject to approval.
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Some people may want to help make Common Lisp successful, yet may not currently care about perks.
In that case, Private Sponsorship is available as an option.
Simply make your sponsorship private on GitHub and I will do everything I can to protect your privacy.
You can switch your sponsorship back and forth between public and private at any time and I will honor this the best I can, within reason.
Any donations you make while you are a private sponsor will generate anonymous log entries, attributed to an anonymized name like "Anonymous 1".
These anonymous donations do not contribute to your Total Credited Amount, but you can later request to make them public, at which point they will.
When setting your sponsorship status to private, note that it may be possible to logically link your future anonymous donations to your previous public donations.
All of your previous public donations will remain public, since attempting to remove that information from public consciousness would be an exercise in futility.
By default, all your anonymous donations will simply bear the same sequential number, the one that was automatically assigned to your first anonymous donation.
You can request generation of a new sequential number for your future anonymous donations, provided that I judge the change likely to make a material difference.