I didn't research much, but I think we could try to enable some platform which will work to collect money contributions which we can spent on some expenses. I didn't research much how it works but I think we could use the contributed money for something like:

- Hiring a full-time developer / developers to the project

- Tickets to conferences to present JanusGraph

It is just a simple ideas. I didn't research deep but the platforms we could look at are: 

- https://opencollective.com

- https://www.bountysource.com/

- https://liberapay.com/

- https://www.patreon.com/

- possibly some other platforms

What the community think about this step? Do you think it could be useful?