I’m not collaborating with Kenneth Reitz

I personally wouldn’t have announced a fundraiser without first talking to the people actually working on the features I was promising, but I was confident we could find some way to spend the money effectively. Over the next few months, there were some more odd things – different members of the Requests maintainers team reported hearing very different stories about what was happening to the money. And as a member of the Packaging Working Group, he participated in the voting for the PyPI funding, which happened a few months before he started his fundraiser.

Source: vorpus.org