As some of you may have known from the dev blog last month, Pods now has a foundation behind it! Pods Foundation, Inc is a non-profit, charitable organization which was incorporated last month to further the mission of the Pods open source project.
What’s changing? Not really much, just all financial operations will go through the Pods Foundation for tax purposes. All funds that Pods Foundation raises will go towards:
- Maintaining and Improving the Pods CMS Framework plugin for WordPress and keeping it available for free to the public
- Maintaining and Improving the Pods project web presences
- Improving documentation about how to use and develop with Pods
- Technical Support for our userbase
- Comprehensive Video and Step-by-step Tutorials
- Presentations and/or Workshops at major WordCamps
The Core Dev Team will continue to run the plugin and related operations day-to-day, the foundation will just kick in when money is involved.
The foundation also has a new site setup at http://podsfoundation.org/ and is where we’ll be taking donations going forward. When we revamp the Pods main site, we’ll likely be pushing some of the design elements onto the foundation site as well as this dev blog, so things will be a bit more connected once that happens. Until then, we’re using the TwentyEleven theme for the foundation site (which is actually running WP 3.1.x).
Just wanted to officially share the good news 🙂