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.