The Common Lisp Foundation

The Foundation holds and pays for common-lisp.net: free hosting for open source Common Lisp projects since 2003, with a GitLab instance and its CI runners, mailing lists, project sites at common-lisp.dev, and container images of the Lisp implementations on Docker Hub. It is the steward of the community's domain names, common-lisp.net and cliki.net among them.

All of its work is done by volunteers; none of it is paid. What is being built and kept up, and what has changed, are on common-lisp.net: Current work and News.

The board meets every month, usually on the first Wednesday, and would like more of the Common Lisp community at those meetings. Write to clf@cl-foundation.org for an invitation to the next one.

The Foundation accepts donations toward what it runs for the Common Lisp community: the servers behind common-lisp.net, its GitLab, mailing lists and project sites, the machines that build the community's container images, and the domain names they all live under.

A donation is a gift, given in appreciation of what has already been done. It buys nothing and creates no obligation on the Foundation's part; the full terms are eight short points at common-lisp.net/donate/terms. What comes in and what it pays for are published as they happen at common-lisp.net/donate/numbers, rather than promised in reports.

The appreciation fundraisers the Foundation once ran on behalf of individual projects, passing the proceeds on to their maintainers, are paused while the Foundation raises what its own services cost.