Create a `funding.json` file

[stevepiercy]

A file funding.json is a standard as defined in https://fundingjson.org/ for describing FOSS funding requirements. See that page for examples.

It's used by grantees to communicate their funding needs. One grantor is https://floss.fund/ which offers a minimum of $10,000 and up to $100,000 for a single recipient.

To start, I'd create a pull request using the template with comments, and start filling in details. This is a collaborative effort, which will need input from all the teams.

When finalized, we'd publish it first here in the repository.

When we have bandwidth, we'd publish it at https://plone.org/funding.json. Adding static files to a Volto site requires adding them to the public folder in the frontend package, and then the Volto process serves them directly.

[stevepiercy]

Now that #223 has been merged, how does it get deployed to plone.org?

Can it be deployed before the end of 2025?

Meanwhile, I could submit the GitHub version so we can be considered for the 2026 Q1 funding cycle, but I'd have to update those files and I'd like to avoid two submissions. Stuff like this is better to get right the first time.

[fredvd]

This issue was released with 1.0.21 on plone.org today.

[stevepiercy]

I attempted to submit it to https://dir.floss.fund/submit, but it returned an error.

error: https://github.com/plone/plone.org/.well-known/funding-manifest-urls returned 404

We need to update it to:

https://plone.org/.well-known/funding-manifest-urls

...and also host the file https://github.com/plone/plone.org/blob/main/.well-known/funding-manifest-urls at that location.

[stevepiercy]

To close this issue:

• Merge Update funding manifest URL #225.
• Deploy Update funding manifest URL #225.
• Check that https://plone.org/funding.json exists.
• Check that https://plone.org/.well-known/funding-manifest-urls exists.
• Submit https://plone.org/funding.json to https://dir.floss.fund/submit without error.

Hopefully this will work.

[fredvd]

@stevepiercy merged and deployed to testing.plone.org automatically. You can check the funding.json there now.

[stevepiercy]

@fredvd https://plone.org/.well-known/funding-manifest-urls doesn't exist. Is there something that we missed?

[fredvd]

Yes, you might have missed that I wrote testing.plone.org ☺️. So everything merged into the main branch, if it passes ci checks, gets deployed to testing.

If all’s well and tested there (on tesfing.plone.org) by a human check: creating a tag on the repository pushes it in separately created images to the live plone.org website.