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Chris Waldon

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Hey everyone! I'm Chris, and I hail from central North Carolina in the USA! I spend most of my free time working on {free,libre,open source} software, and I love doing it. Most of my time goes to Gio and to the Arbor Chat Project, though I also contribute to a number of other projects.

Gio provides the painless, cross-platform foundation that GUI development needs. I co-maintain Gio's examples repository, website, and CI systems. I am also the primary maintainer of Gio-x, the experimental or platform-specific extensions to the core libraries. Additionally, I manage the month community calls, office hours, and newsletters.

Arbor is an attempt to make instant messaging clearer, easier, and fairer by restructuring conversation into a tree. You can read all about it on our website. I created the project in 2018, and have been leading its development ever since.

I recently left my full-time salaried job to become a freelance software contractor. This mode of work gives me the flexibility to work on open source more often, and your support enables me to spend more of my time working directly on open source.

My other work includes:

  • Bug reports and fixes for sourcehut, particularly around source code annotations and artifact hosting
  • kfreestyle2d, the unofficial userspace Linux driver for the Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard

Current sponsors 4

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Past sponsors 7
@elizabUX
@zwang
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@eliasnaur
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Featured work

  1. arborchat/sprig

    Cross platform Arbor client, mirrored from SourceHut

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  2. gioui/gio

    Mirror of the Gio main repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio)

  3. whereswaldon/kfreestyle2d

    Unofficial Kinesis Freestyle 2 Userspace Linux Driver

  4. gioui/gio-example

    Mirror of the Gio examples repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio-example)

  5. gioui/giouiorg

    Mirror of the Gio website (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/giouiorg)

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  6. gioui/gio-x

    Mirror of the Gio x repository (https://git.sr.ht/~whereswaldon/gio-x)

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$5 a month

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You're really helping to keep the lights on!

This tier helps me cover the cost of some of our infrastructure for the month (a single server, part of a domain name renewal, etc...).

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Your support helps us grow our community, infrastructure, and presence!

This tier helps me cover a lot of project costs each month (several servers, Apple Developer Program membership for iOS builds, etc...)

I'll include a special thank you for you in the Arbor or Gio community newsletter (your choice).

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You enable me to invest in the future of my FOSS work.

This tier supports not only current costs, but allows me to save money for larger, future goals like security audits, legal advice, new infrastructure, and more.

I will include a thank you message to you in the next Arbor or Gio community newsletter (your choice), and I will post a permanent, immutable thank you message in the arbor-dev#57ea community to thank you for your contribution!

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This tier allows me to set aside money for everything mentioned above, but to a greater extent.

This tier includes all of the benefits of the $50/month tier.

Additionally, I will implement a demonstration of using Gio or Arbor to achieve a particular feature that is of interest to you. Depending on the relevance of the demo to the project community, it may join the official examples of either project.