Short-term grants (two-week to 1 month) (à la Stripe)

[ariddell]

The details of the Stripe grant struck me as very much worth writing down:

Last week completes my two week grant from Stripe to work on urllib3 full time, and I’d like to declare that these weeks were a huge success.
tl;dr:

• $3,750 for two weeks of full time work at Stripe.
• 51 files changed, 1809 insertions(+), 633 deletions(-).
• 10 merged pull requests, 26 closed issues, 6 new issues.
• One major release (v1.9).
• ~6 months worth of progress in two weeks.
• Tech companies: More like this, please.

https://medium.com/@shazow/urllib3-stripe-and-open-source-grants-edb9c0e46e82

It strikes me that some of these smaller projects (like urllib3) are more difficult to fund and yet
funding them would make a bigger difference than funding a larger project (again, an empirical question for which we need some data).