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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008
+Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+If you feel like donating goods or money for the work the developers are doing,
+then we're happy to confirm that this is indeed possible.  Of course we'd
+really like to have you working with us on the system, but if you're feeling
+generous we won't stop you either.
+
+Note that you can't donate directly to the Hurd project, but only to either the
+Free Software Foundation or individually to the developers.  Donations to the
+Free Software Foundation are tax deducible, see <http://fsf.org/donate>.
+
+If you've got more money on hand than hacking time, you might consider buying
+some [maintenance points](http://g10code.com/products.html#maintpoints) (EUR 10 a point) to
+help the Hurd along.  From the [g10 Code](http://www.g10code.com/products.html)
+site:
+
+> Hurd Maintenance Points are special: Some of our employees are well known
+> Hurd hackers in their spare time; collected points for this program will be
+> given to them in form of paid time.
+
+See also this related
+[mailing-list](http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-04/msg00044.html)
+thread.
+
+And for further motivation, some words of wisdom from Marcus Brinkmann:
+
+> By the way, if you are more on the speculating side, then it can't harm to
+> just buy one or two maintenance points.  That means that at some time I get
+> an incentive to start the hacking, and there is a chance that when I start I
+> don't stop for a while, and just continue on my private time (as I did for
+> the last five years, if I might add that ;).
+
+Another possibility is to meet with the Hurd developers at a
+[[meeting|community/meetings]] and spend them a pizza or beer or both or
+similar.
+
+
+# Developers
+
+<small>(alphabetically)</small>
+
+<!-- TODO.  Need some real ikiwiki way of adding such anchors.  -->
+
+<a name="Marcus_Brinkmann"></a>
+## Marcus Brinkmann
+
+... would like you to donate to the Free Software Foundation (see the top of
+this page) or to the [Electronic Frontier Foundation](http://eff.org/support/).
+
+<a name="Thomas_Schwinge"></a>
+## [[Thomas_Schwinge|tschwinge]]
+
+Rate him and donate money to the Free Software Foundation [through
+Affero](http://rate.affero.net/tschwinge/Hurd/).
+
+For specifically donating to him [go
+here](http://nic-nac-project.de/~schwinge/donate.html).