[Openmcl-devel] CCL IDE Pledge Drive Update

[Andrew Shalit]

Hello CCL Users --

The Clozure CL Development Environment Pledge Drive is going well!

We have received pledges totaling $19,150.  That brings us over 90% of  
the way to our goal of $20,000.

[Imagine thermometer graphic here, with red bar reaching almost to the  
top.]

Please help us reach our goal, so we can get down to work building the  
best Common Lisp IDE anywhere.  When we announced the Pledge Drive, we  
requested pledges of $500 or more.  At this time, we'd like to open it  
up to contributions of any amount.  Every little bit will help us  
reach our goal of $20,000.

You can contribute directly through PayPal: just direct your payment "payments at clozure.com 
".  To make a pledge or payment another way, please contact me at alms at clozure.com 
.

Please make your pledge today.

To recap:

Our goal is to raise $20,000 to support two months of development on  
the CCL IDE, running on Mac OS X.  This will allow us to greatly  
improve the quality and reliability of the CCL IDE.  Specific work  
will include

1. Improving and stabilizing the editor.  (Think Fred.)
2. Completing the other existing IDE tools (Processes, Apropos,   
Inspect, Search Files).
3. Adding additional features and tools to the editor and the IDE    
(e.g. multiple-font support, syntax coloring).
4. Simplifying the installation and build process to make CCL  
available to more users, including Lisp newbies.
5. Reorganizing the IDE source code to encourage future development by  
the CCL community.

Thanks to all the people who have pledged so far.  If you have not yet  
pledged, please consider making a contribution to support our work on  
this free, open source software.  We need your support to make this  
happen.



Yours,


Andrew Shalit
Clozure Associates