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emacs-grammarly-support.txt
I am a big fan of Grammarly ( https://grammarly.com/ ). I am also an Emacs user. I do most of my academic and technical writing in LaTeX or Org-mode in Emacs, and it is crucial for me to have Grammarly working there.
Until recently, there was a way to use Grammarly from Emacs using an unofficial LSP-server (https://github.com/znck/grammarly). Unfortunately, it stopped working and is no longer supported. The main developer was hired by Grammarly and said an official SDK would replace it, but it is unclear when it will happen, and I am not betting on it as company priorities might change.
The second part of this is lsp-grammarly (https://github.com/emacs-grammarly/lsp-grammarly) emacs package. It was working but could be improved.
The final part is to make lsp-grammarly work with org-mode and LaTeX-modes. The last time I used it, it worked reasonably well, but just in case, we can keep an eye on and fix issues reported.
It is such an important tool for my everyday work that I decided to initiate a project to hire some developers to make it work, fix bugs, make some improvements, and provide essential support. I am willing to pay for some of this out of my pocket, but to make it sustainable long term, I would like to set up a fund where interested users could pay to support developers working on it. Of course, all the code will be open-source, and the financial part will be completely transparent. LSP-server part of the project could be of interest to non-emacs users, e.g. Visual Studio Code.
I run a software development company in Ukraine, through which we can find and hire part-time or full-time developers. I can manage this project. Next steps:
1. I am looking for a part-time developer who can start working on fixing https://github.com/znck/grammarly
2. I am looking for part-time emacs lisp developer to work on improving the usability of https://github.com/emacs-grammarly/lsp-grammarly
3. I am looking for people who are potentially willing to donate money to this project.
4/ I am looking for suggestions on how to set donations infrastructure. Ideally, sponsors should be able to upvote feature requests.
Contact: Vadim Zaliva lord@codeminders.com
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bajtos commented Apr 13, 2022

I am looking for suggestions on how to set donations infrastructure. Ideally, sponsors should be able to upvote feature requests.

Several popular open-source projects are successfully raising funds using the https://opencollective.com/ platform, see e.g. babel and webpack.

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