>What will the Foundation do?

>The number one goal of the Handmade Software Foundation is to support, promote, and sustain the development of Handmade software.

I would love some concrete ideas what this means. My primary concern is that if any money is involved, like stipends for handmade software it will be gamed and there is no way to monitor if LLMs are used or not. In current world it is hard for me not to be cynical when I heard about new good thing, but also they are asking for money and they don’t really tell what they will do with it

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xixixao 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There doesn’t seem to be any relationship between Handmade and “not using LLMs” (besides one that can be argued if you believe LLM-aided software is worse in size or performance).

	▲	nextlevelwizard 7 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Okay.. so what’s the point?
	▲	mariusor 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I would imagine, or rather hope, that "hand made" is not entirely just a metaphor for the people supporting Handmade network.

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anonymous908213 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They don't mention the possibility of providing funding for developers anywhere in the article.

> Basically, the thinking goes that Handmade programmers have the technical chops to make amazing software, but don’t always have the aptitude or desire for the many, many other tasks that go into shipping. Payments, licensing, emails, support, design, marketing, testing, the list goes on.

Instead, it sounds like they want to take on the role of a publisher. Perhaps providing publisher-like services without any money changing hands between developer and publisher, with the latter being funded by donations and the former still having to make their own bread, just with some of the development-adjacent work offloaded.

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nextlevelwizard 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s going to be next to impossible to vet people, but I guess if they take it really slow and get to know them it could work

Unless of course “handmade” doesn’t mean what I think it does

	▲	anonymous908213 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why do you think it would be impossible to vet people? Publishers vet the developers they work with all the time. Edit: Upon re-reading, I actually missed this paragraph the first time. > Membership will grant you access to a private Discord channel with other members, access to the aforementioned business resources, and possibly more benefits down the line. We have other ideas for Foundation activities, but we don’t want to distract ourselves from our primary goal as we get the Foundation off the ground. It sounds like you get the publisher-like services in exchange for paying them. So in that sense they probably don't care if you're vetted because you're giving them money? Assuming the membership fee is sufficiently large. They are also talking a lot about "community", in-person meetings, etc. so I assume a close relationship is expected, though.

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LowLevelBasket 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They mention funding projects like 'File Pilot' but it doesn't seem like file pilot will be the first project they'll fund. They didn't mention what % will be going to events and I personally don't want to fund those