Hi readers 👋, welcoming you back to the "Appwrite OSS Fund" series, where we celebrate open-source maintainers. 🎉
🤔 What Is OSS Fund?
On the 4th of May, the Appwrite team launched the OSS Fund, an initiative to support open-source project maintainers. Being an open-source company, we wanted to give back to the community and help as many people as we can.
The OSS Fund is an initiative that is very close to our heart.
Hear what our Founder and CEO has to say - The Appwrite Story:
Announcing the Appwrite OSS Fund - Appwrite
Appwrite is a backend-as-a-service platform that provides developers with all the core APIs required to build any application.
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📢 Announcing The Final Project
After careful considerations from the committee we are thrilled to announce the twentieth project:
🤔 What Is Vale?
Vale is a markup-aware linter for prose. It helps enforce consistent stylistic standards across multiple projects, teams, and contributors. Notably, unlike most writing-related software, Vale doesn’t offer any of its own advice. Instead, it offers a framework for creating and enforcing custom rules (such as those from the Microsoft Writing Style Guide or Google Developer Documentation Style Guide ).
🤝 Meet The Maintainer
Joseph Kato who is a software developer from Portland, Oregon is the maintainer of Vale.
He works primarily with Python, Go, and Rust, and maintains a few open-source projects. He was recently a recipient of the Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award.
🚘 The Journey So Far
Vale originated from a desire to have a spell-checking tool that understood common markup syntax (AsciiDoc, Markdown, reStructuredText, etc.) and was straightforward to incorporate into continuous integration (CI) systems. The initial version of Vale was released about 5 years ago. Since then, the project has seen ~1.2 million GitHub downloads, ~1.1 million Docker pulls, and has become one of the most widely-adopted prose linters with users including The University of Texas at Dallas, GitHub, Microsoft, and the U.S. government.
🗒️ Ending Notes
As Joseph continues to build Vale for the open source community, we want to thank maintainers like him for contributing back to the community.
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