Welcome Our New Bug Prioritizer Sponsor: @omarmciver!

[Michael-A-Kuykendall]

🎉 Welcome to Shimmy's Bug Prioritizers! @omarmciver

Hey Omar!

Huge thanks for becoming a $25/month sponsor of Shimmy! This means a lot and directly helps keep the project free forever while I can dedicate more time to making it better.

What You Get as a Bug Prioritizer:

✅ Priority Support - Your issues and questions jump to the front of the queue
✅ Featured in SPONSORS.md - Your name is permanently listed
✅ Direct Access - Tag me (@Michael-A-Kuykendall) in any issue/discussion and I'll prioritize it
✅ Early Feature Input - Your feedback shapes what gets built next

How to Use Your Priority Support:

• Bug reports: Tag with priority-sponsor label or just @ mention me
• Feature requests: Open an issue or discussion - I'll respond within 24 hours
• Questions: GitHub Discussions or direct @ mentions work great
• Emergency issues: Tag me directly, I monitor actively

What's Coming Next:

We just fixed Issue #72 (GPU backend bug) and are about to release v1.6 with some cool improvements. Your support makes releases like this possible!

If you have any immediate needs or ideas, don't hesitate to reach out. You're helping make local AI inference better for everyone.

Thanks again! 🚀

– Mike

[omarmciver]

Hey Mike,

Thanks for the warm welcome. I wholeheartedly support what you are building here. I've been building scripts to deploy models in various configurations using Ollama, vLLM and others across my 4 GPUs. I believe the cloud cost is decreasing enough that for most use cases remote hosted LLMs (and LLM eco systems) will always lead, but the off-network element is critical both in terms of true privacy and rapid development of models and code. Hence Shimmy makes all the sense to me!

Best Regards
Omar

[Michael-A-Kuykendall]

I have ACTIVE,, CURRENT, RUNNING versions of these locally right now--explect them SOOOOOOOOON;

1. Libshimmy (bye bye llama.cpp and crappy compile times!)
2. Shimmy.net (Win integrations, still working out tooling kinks)
3. Shimmy-boot (cloud orchestration, baby!)

So I am RIGHT there with ya!