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 and become a
contributor, but if you're feeling generous we won't stop you
either.
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# Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is the GNU project's principal organizational
sponsor. [Donations to the FSF](http://donate.fsf.org/) are tax deducible.
However, they can't accept donations addressed directly to/specifically for the
GNU Hurd project.
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# FOSS Factory -- a Bounty System for GNU Hurd Work
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As its principal idea, FOSS Factory, means to
serve as a hub and organizational platform for connecting Free/Open Source
Software developers with monetary sponsors. From
http://www.fossfactory.org/aboutus.php:
FOSS Factory's mission is to accelerate the advancement of free/open source
software by helping people collaborate on the design, funding, and
development of innovative software ideas. All software solutions produced
using our system are released under free/open source licenses. Our unique
model brings the best of innovators from both the entrepreneurial and FOSS
worlds together to solve real world problems using the mass resources of the
FOSS community.
In very general words, their modus operandi is that the community (including
the monetary sponsors) works together with the developers on splitting up tasks
into suitable and assessable sub-projects as necessary, and then act as the
reviewing instance, deciding on such sub-projects' success (and payment,
successively). For more details see their System
Overview.
For now, we can assume that the amount of money to be made by working on a GNU
Hurd task in this framework is likely to be a symbolic amount only, rather than
being representative for the real effort that needs to be invested. Software
development is expensive, mostly due to the amount of time that is needed for
completing any non-trivial task. Instead, these bounties should be regarded as
an attraction/reward, perhaps also simply as a motivation for a developer to
focus on one specific problem, and bringing it to completion.
Working on a Task and/or Suggesting/Donating for a New Task
In principle, any Hurd-related development task is applicable (for example,
from the GSoC project ideas, or from the
open issues list), but it is of course recommendable to match sponsors'
ideas with those of the developers and maintainers. For this, if you want to
sponsor a project, but don't know which one to choose, or if you want to work
on a bounty that is not yet listed on the site, we suggest that you talk to us
first, either publically on the bug-hurd mailing
list or privately on hurd-maintainers@gnu.org, if
you prefer.
Both for supporting (donating) as well as claiming a bounty, you have to
register at their site, and proceed from there.
Please don't hesitate to ask Thomas Schwinge if you need help.
Continue to explore the list of open bounties.
Hurd Developer Meetings
Another possibility is to meet with the Hurd developers at a
meeting and buy them a pizza or beer or both or
similar.
Individual Developers
Sorted alphabetically.
Marcus Brinkmann
... would like you to donate to the Free Software Foundation (see the top of
this page) or to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Rate him and donate money to the Free Software Foundation through
Affero.
For specifically donating to him go
here.
