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Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

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On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 12:22 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:

> Debian is defined –and proud– to be a volunteer-based project,
> that is, we don't hire and have never hired people to do our work,
> technical or otherwise.

The only exception thus far has been Outreachy internships.

> If you donate funds to Debian, we will most likely use them in
> hardware for the different project activities, hosting and
> connectivity, or travels for Debian conferences / miniconferences.

https://www.debian.org/donations

> If what you want to do is to ensure a given area of the project is
> well maintained, you can hire Debian Developers or Maintainers, and
> pay them to improve the areas you feel to be more important.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-jobs/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-consultants/
https://www.debian.org/consultants/
https://www.fossjobs.net/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

> There are many cases of individuals and compaines donating to Debian
> in both ways; perhaps the most visible is the Freexian's "Long Term
> Support" for Debian releases.

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Team

Freexian is also funding general Debian development:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas
https://freexian-team.pages.debian.net/project-funding/
https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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Question about contributing to debian financially. Zeke Williams <lakeleaf8@gmail.com> - 2022-11-15 16:20 +0100
  Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2022-11-15 19:30 +0100
    Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2022-11-16 00:50 +0100
      Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Zeke Williams <lakeleaf8@gmail.com> - 2022-11-16 14:50 +0100
        Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2022-11-16 16:30 +0100
        Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2022-11-17 03:10 +0100

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