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Helping Minsky

Minsky relies upon a community of users who help identify problems with the program, and suggest ways in which it can be improved. We encourage any Minsky user to join at least one of two Minsky groups via SourceForge:

  1. Minsky-users: https://sourceforge.net/projects/minsky/lists/minsky-users; and
  2. Minsky-beta-testers: https://sourceforge.net/projects/minsky/lists/minsky-betatesters

Minsky’s initial development was financed by a grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking in 2011, and a subsequent grant from Friends Provident Foundation enabled it to be developed to its current standard.

Many successful Open-Source programs are funded by companies that use these programs in their daily work. We hope that this will one day apply to Minsky. In the meantime, we have established a crowdfunding page for Minsky: https://patreon.com/hpcoder. If you find Minsky useful and would like to see it develop further, please sign up (for as little as $1 a month) and help Minsky develop further.

13.1 Future Developments

Minsky ’s development is managed by the ticket system at https://sourceforge.net/projects/minsky/. Two major development goals for Minsky 3.0 are:

  1. Producing a web browser version of Minsky that can be run without needing to install a program on your PC; and
  2. Dramatic improvements in the quality of Minsky ’s plots.

Many other improvements are planned as well: like any piece of computer software, Minsky will never be finished, but will instead always be evolving. We would appreciate your help in guiding that evolution.