I once dreamed about the OCaml funding project, something like FreeBSD fundraising, where everybody could donate money to OCaml project or particular OCaml subprojects (e.g. multicore).
Did the OCaml people ever think about a centralized donation platform/funding system? I suppose it could be quite tricky in terms of law and technical issues, so the costs could surpass the benefits though.
I’ve also never heard about PL-related fundraising, but Gnome, Haiku, FreeBSD, OpenBSD do that.