In reply to Miroslav Glavić.

Jeff & company already do it.

Tavern is owned (and funded I presume) by Matt Mullenweg.

While I think that discussion of crowdfunded budget is fair shot, I find statements about someone "not needing" money distasteful and unpleasantly common in WordPress.

We all need money. We all need to eat, roof over our heads, and to have other basic needs covered before we can even consider going out and doing things for the community for free.

When you tell people they "don't need" money what they hear is that they are not welcome unless they provide free work to WordPress. There are a lot of people around that won't participate for this exact reason alone. It is one of those very challenges HeroPress tries to cover in its periphery theme.

Hero Press would of been a “clone” of Wptavern.com and other similar sites.

Tavern had always been pretty centered on mainline WordPress project. It seems like the center of the world for plenty of people. For others it's meaningless buzz about things "over there".

Tavern does a good job at project and related news, but it has never had much interest or impact on periphery (in my opinion and from where I stand).