Some time ago, I talked about enabling mpl donations to raise money for development. My goal is to promote donations with some reasonably prominent info on the web page, and some emails as well, to raise enough to fund a sprint. This is the blurb I wrote for the donations page: All donations to matplotlib will be used to fund matplotlib development. Our primary goal is to raise enough funds to finance a developer sprint to work on new features, better installers and better documentation. To enable donations, all project admins must opt in. In addition to me, those are Charlie, Darren, Eric, Jeff and Michael and the opt in page is at http://sourceforge.net/project/admin/donations.php?group_id=80706. The donations are set up to go into my paypal account, but if one of you wants to create a dedicated account to handle these, that is fine by me. If anyone has concerns or suggestions, let me know. We get a fair amount of web traffic and maybe we can raise enough money to do something useful. I have no experience with donations so I have no idea whether this is feasible, but it seems like it is worth a shot. JDH