Supporting RISE

Hi folks!

This is a little blog post requesting your support for RISE.

What is RISE?¶

RISE is a very popular extension for the Jupyter Notebook. It lets you show your notebooks rendered as an executable Reveal.js-based slideshow.

We have been working on RISE for several years and we are looking into its future and evolution.

How you can help us (with money ;-)¶

You can always help us contributing to the project with your time (through code, documentation, testing, showing, using it) BUT we are currently looking for a continuous flow of money so we can spend time on a daily basis with RISE.

Basically, you have 2-3 ways to fund RISE support and development:

At https://ko-fi.com/damianavila you can either:

• Buy me some stars as general support (and you will be listed on this blog support page)
• Buy a "commission" to support the accomplishment of diverse RISE-related goals (see each specific RISE-related commission for more details)

We highly encourage you to choose one of the RISE-related available commissions.

Press the Commission me button located below for more details on each commission.

Currently, most (if not all) of my commissions are associated with RISE support and ongoing development. These are just a one-time commissions, so if you want to support us in a continuous/recurrent way, you can buy us a higher commission/tier (not monthly subscription available)!

Btw, buying a commission will allow you to be listed on the RISE supporters' page (logos reserved for high tiers commissions).

Alternatively, if you don't like this platform (or the associated electronic payment method) and you still want to support us or, maybe, you are a company and you need to process things outside of this platform, you can drop us a DM at damian_avila's on Twitter or Telegram and we can figure it out better alternatives for you. As always, you can also reach us at our public gitter channel to start the conversation.

Why you are asking for support?¶

Essentially, because we want RISE to evolve, to shine, to keep helping people. We have a lot of concrete plans and also some very interesting ideas to explore and we want to make those happen. But those things need time to happen and time means money in this world...

We are now trying this supporter-based model expecting not only people support but also companies' support, but we are open to trying several and multiple ways to fund RISE development and evolution, so if you have other ideas, just let's know!

Why you are asking for support NOW?¶

The idea started several weeks ago because there were a lot of people requesting to support RISE somehow. So we developed a solution for them and any other who wants to support us. But then COVID-19 exploded and we thought it was not the proper time to ask for support. But people keep asking for a channel to support us and it seems COVID-19 will be on this world for a long time, so we decided to go ahead and ask for it.

Finally, a BIG THANK YOU!¶