Friends of Apache Groovy
Supports activities within the Groovy community

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Financial Contributions
Events
Friends of Apache Groovy is hosting the following events.
Top financial contributors
Organizations
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Individuals
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Marcin Erdmann
$1,950 USD
Daniel Sun
$5 USD
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Adaptavist
Silver Sponsor
$7,800 USD
Claz
Bronze Sponsor
$3,900 USD
Level Data
Bronze Sponsor
$3,900 USD
Agorapulse
Bronze Sponsor
$3,900 USD
Burt Beckwith
Bronze Sponsor
$3,900 USD
Guillaume Laf...
$3,750 USD

Budget
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$40,419.39 USD
$43,349.25 USD
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News from Friends of Apache Groovy
Updates on our activities and progress.
Apache Groovy 3.0.1 released
Progressing towards Groovy 3.0.0 with greatly reduced illegal access errors
Groovy 3 support in Eclipse

About
- develop features and fix bugs for Apache Groovy (see disclaimer below)
- sponsor outreach activities (e.g. educational events in cities which might not otherwise be visited by the popular conferences)
- cover travel expenses to promote Groovy (when other sources of travel funding aren't available).
- Enhancement of the Groovy static type checking system, e.g. support for @Nullable, better support for generics type, bug fixing(GROOVY-8409, etc.)
- Re-write of the Meta-Object Protocol (MOP) for Groovy 4.0
- Support for JEP 325 Switch Expressions
- Improvements to JDK module support (JPMS), e.g. writing module descriptors in Groovy
- Native default methods in interfaces (currently implemented as traits)
- Improvements to supporting tools, e.g. Netbeans/Eclipse/IDEA IDE support and or Maven/Gradle plugin improvements
- Re-work GPars to account for recent developments on the JDK and overlapping technologies like Kotlin coroutines and AKKA
- or suggest your own priorities